Adjective : sly as a fox. ,sly humor. From Dictionary.com.
The sliest of them may be a series of line drawings spoofing the long-standing rivalry between the playwright Frank Chin and the novelist Maxine Hong Kingston. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Tei Yamashita's "I Hotel" is a finalist for the National Book Award] Reference
She got nothing, for instance, out of the juxtaposition of "roaming" and "Romeo" in the verse of Irving Berlin's "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," a neat half-rhyme on which Fred Astaire for whom Berlin wrote the song never failed to put the sliest of spins. From Wordnik.com. [March 2006] Reference
Southern humorist Roy Blount Jr. corrals his sliest essays in Long Time Leaving (Knopf). From Wordnik.com. [Hot Type] Reference
Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The man who stood aloof (the sliest, sodden-faced creature I ever saw) came nearer — To the question, doctor, and to my part, if you please! — Am not I her father? — To the question, doctor, if you please!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The sliest old thief that you ever did see. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum] Reference
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