What's the difference between cleverness and slyness?

Cleverness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
  • (2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
  • (4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
  • (5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
  • (6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
  • (7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
  • (8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
  • (9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
  • (10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
  • (12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
  • (15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
  • (16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
  • (17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
  • (19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
  • (20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.

Slyness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being sly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This enigma occurs as a result of the suffering, the violence and the slyness inherent to creativity, in the sense that his own accomplishments are inexorably questionable because of the ubiquitous presence of the tragic and das Unheimliche.
  • (2) But one senses a cynicism, a manipulatory slyness, about those performers.
  • (3) He leads with quiet slyness, kindness and confidence – and 30 years of experience practicing those traits.