slyly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb in an artful manner
    artfully; knavishly; craftily; trickily; cunningly; foxily.
    • he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced
    • had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?

WordNet


Sly"ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
    Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

Webster 1913