Sentence examples for not sly from inspiring English sources
The journalist is a damn fool who writes for money and is not sly enough to grease the right palms to grab more.
This is not sly, but it is often misunderstood as being too eager to please by people who tend to find dissonant music more serious than consonant music.
Didn't Sly and Brucey use to flip burgers together?
It isn't sly, like the Pepsi "Choice of a New Generation" ads so masterfully skewered by David Foster Wallace, or reactionary or appropriationist, as Thomas Frank describes consumer culture in "The Conquest of Cool".
As if "senior moments" and "silver-haired top tens" (both coined by RBP's editorial director Barney Hoskyns) weren't sly enough, David Quantick came up with the wonderful acronym MOPO -- "Music of Older People Origin".
Next he had to endure Brendan Rodgers having a not so sly dig at last season's £100m White Hart Lane splurge by insisting the Luis Suárez cash would not be frittered away like the Gareth Bale money.
Designer Halston created the clothes for the entire wedding party, which consisted of not only Sly and his bride Kathy Silva, but Sly's mother, Mrs. K. C. Stewart, Kathy's mother, Mrs. William Silva, Sly's three sister, and one brother, and his brother-in-law, the members of Sly's band, The Family Stone, three back-up singers with the Family Stone, and twelve young black models.
That's not for Sly Stone.
Not that Sly is the only touchstone here.
But aside from occasional moments, there is not enough sly sophistication for grown-ups to savor.
