Sentence examples for not so sly from inspiring English sources

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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.

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Josh Roberts: Leaving my current job next Wednesday + TMS on the not-so-sly = zero working getting done!

The (frustratingly vague) invitation urges us members of the tech press to let them take us "to the edge" — should one succumb to the urge to read too much into things, it's possible that the line is a not-so-sly reference to a smartphone or tablet design with an edge-to-edge display.

The house is yellow and the wallpaper has a+pattern that deeply disturbs the female narrator -- not so much a sly allusion to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a full-blown embrace of it.

It was as if the Great Communicator had reached down to his understudy and with a sly grin whispered, "Not so fast, kid".

It was as if the president known as the Great Communicator had reached down to his understudy and with a sly grin whispered, "Not so fast, kid".

The second I walked into the center of the city she gave me a smile so sly I didn't even realize I was cheating on Paris.

The trick was to send out clippings so sly that a tired editor might not notice that they were written by an advertising outfit.

But his Jonathon is from the start so sly and embittered that you can't imagine why his friends would ever trust him.

But Mr Haider, sly as a snake and sharp as a razor, was not so easily defined.

You thought you were so sly.

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