Adjective : sly as a fox. ,sly humor. From Dictionary.com.
I have tried to catch him once or twice at night; but he is slier than a fox, and as slippery as a fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
The hungry thousands that crowded and pushed at Willard's thought him one of them, only deeper and slier. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
The other boys pulled as many pranks as he did, or more - they were just slier about it, and they didn't get caught because no one was trying to catch them the way everyone seemed to be trying to catch him. From Wordnik.com. [Owlflight]
Jofeph Dorr, of Leic slier. bwight Fofler, cf Brookfield. From Wordnik.com. [A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay] Reference
A developer finds his niche on a slier of land overlooking the. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
One of poker's slier players, this several-time World Poker Tour finalist and World Series of Poker bracelet winner often comes across as the silent but deadly type of player. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Commonly the arts and the skill of the mystical huntsman improve from youth to adolescence and from generation to generation, so that the later animals appear to be easier snared or slain than the earlier; moreover, the accounts of conflicts between men and animals grow by repetition and are gilded by imagination as memory grows dim; and for these and other reasons the notion grows up that the ancient animals were stronger, swifter, slier, statelier, deadlier than their modern representatives, and the hierarchy of petty gods is exalted into an omnipotent thearchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
December 31st, 2006 at 7:43 pm kathy slier says. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Lugar: Bush Must Consult Congress Over Escalation Or It ‘Could Get Ugly’] Reference
54 minutes ago, -0/+9Unless we're FoxNews is WAY slier than I think, I think they were completely blindsided. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
(o) Dili, slier. From Wordnik.com. [A digest of laws relating to the offices and duties of sheriff, coroner and constable] Reference
(Old Chaucer was yet slier. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
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