unsly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unsly, unslei, unsley, unsleiȝ, unsleȝe, unsleeiȝ, equivalent to un- + sly.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unsly (comparative more unsly, superlative most unsly)
- Not sly; lacking slyness
- 2001, Michael Palmer, Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy:
- Glaucon will play devil's advocate (358c-d, thereby showing himself craftier than Thrasymachus, who is so unsly as to declare himself a wolf, openly, before the sheep; […] )
- 2014, Bill James, Snatched:
- His brown eyes were keen and lively, not absolutely unsly but not ruthless or egomaniac, either: nobody could run a museum without at least a sliver of slyness.
- 2017, Colin Hogg, The High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis:
- Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.