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Antonyms for slyness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : slahy |
Phonetic Transcription : slaɪ |
Definition of slyness
Origin :- mid-14c., from sly (adj.) + -ness.
- noun indirection
- noun artfulness
- We shall learn if slyness and treachery are to be defeated by fair-going and honour.
- Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
- It was like a child, frightened into slyness, coaxing its mother.
- Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
- He combines the ferocity of the tiger, the slyness of the fox, and the shape of a monkey.
- Extract from : « The Kentucky Ranger » by Edward T. Curnick
- She had read him and was openly rejoicing in what she thought his slyness.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Blood » by Robert Smythe Hichens
- Now, however, the diabolical reason of his slyness was apparent.
- Extract from : « The heart of happy hollow » by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- She had been steeped in slyness from her early infancy by a sly mother.
- Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
- Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith
- And some, like Florence, move with the slyness and softness of a cat.
- Extract from : « The Crystal Ball » by Roy J. Snell
- For general reason, frankness is not a better quality than slyness.
- Extract from : « The Positive Outcome of Philosophy » by Joseph Dietzgen
- I should like to know what you think of yourself now with your slyness and deceit?
- Extract from : « Margaret Vincent » by Sophia Lucy Clifford
Synonyms for slyness
- artifice
- astuteness
- bunk
- canniness
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fourberie
- foxiness
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
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