Sentence examples for sly person from inspiring English sources

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"Well, who's your No. 2 starter?" the same sly person said to Randolph.

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A columnist for Hit Parader magazine gave Riot a favorable review, and stated that the album has "a lot that makes Sly the in-person rave that he is".

Asking whether someone eats meat is often a sly way to ascertain the person's caste, and some in Gujarat see it not as a dietary choice but as a rejection of Hinduism and the Gujarati identity itself.

So when the sly admissions officer or HR person does their Google research, they come away saying, 'Wow, this person is a saint!

He is sly and erudite, withdrawn in person and in print exuberant.

Yet the Nurse is just the kind of person who would be "sly enough to imitate the mourning of her betters".

"Girl", for example, used to mean any young person, male or female, while "sly" was skilful and "nice" was stupid.

"Barry says some spooks maintain a stable of trade journalists they pay on the sly," the authors report, invoking the third person.

The article also points out the odd in-person contrast of her mellow sly humor with the high energy of her party-ready audience.

Her prose is first-person, direct, poignant and full of sly humour.

Two: at times he carries a sly air, so that he looks the least innocent person onstage.

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