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slyness

noun

as in cunning

skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means the slyness with which the FBI agent infiltrated the subversive organization without their knowledge was indeed impressive

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Recent Examples of slyness The harp is not an instrument of slyness, wryness, or the earth. —

Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026 Like the tricksters of myth, there’s depth to their slyness. —

Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026 Ay, the superb slyness of that last response! —

Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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Maybe the mere fact of having been born illustrious, with no apparent faults, with nothing to prove or to be ashamed of, had liberated John from the resentments the rest of us feel, and from the cunning and ambition such resentments fuel.

— Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
The Brazil international combines technical craft with a decisive cunning.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026