What's the difference between peek and slyly?

Peek


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (2) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
  • (3) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
  • (4) Ewen takes a peek at the Republican challenger's strategy: He will list damning statistics showing the extent to which Americans have become dependent on the federal government, from food stamps to unemployment benefits.
  • (5) Sure, it's bad to peek at your data but data peeking alone probably isn't going to produce nine different false positives.
  • (6) Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” The news broke on Twitter with Moore sharing the following tweet on Monday: Michael Moore (@MMFlint) Hey NYC- Who wants a peek @ what I've been up 2?
  • (7) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (8) Journalists who have never even peeked into the IPCC report are now outraged that one wrong number appears on page 493 of Volume 2.
  • (9) When Dunham’s own memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” , was published this autumn, it was Gould who defended her (on Salon.com ) from rabid right-wing critics who characterised Dunham as a child molester for confessing to peeking at her sister’s vagina when she was seven.
  • (10) A peek at the source code of the now-blank site contains a hint of a future acquisition, with an empty space labelled “put announce for mtgox acq here”.
  • (11) Shaltai-Boltai and the missing jigsaw pieces Alexander said he was in Asia at the time, but travelled to Estonia within the past week, having first paid a trusted contact to peek into Interpol’s systems and check Russia had not yet put him on the wanted list.
  • (12) What in fact happened, Edward Jr said in the same letter, was that “as I sat on my bed, tears of rage flowing, remembering my childhood my anger kept building and building, and I went to my car, got the 9mm, and walked to his room, peeked in, and he was asleep.
  • (13) But a peek behind its algorithmic curtains suggests what it does know might be wrong.
  • (14) We’ll be giving you a peek behind the curtain of what makes the news and take stock of what’s gone on locally, nationally and globally.
  • (15) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
  • (16) Traditionally Apple releases a sneak peek into its new software for both its Mac computers and its iPhone and iPad at WWDC each year.
  • (17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
  • (18) You can see evidence of these new lands on the Delta's fringes; mile upon mile of agri-business-owned fields peeking out behind the advertising billboards of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
  • (19) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
  • (20) Game of Throne fans are counting the days until the start of series four and to help the wait go faster, we've got a 15-minute sneak peek.

Slyly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I think I am just sort of coming out of a dry period now," he remarks slyly.
  • (2) And now, suddenly and slyly, the goal has been switched to "energy security", which apparently means selling a temporary glut of fracked gas on the world market, thereby creating energy dependencies abroad.
  • (3) "Oh look," I observed slyly, "Minnie's done it and is climbing out."
  • (4) Saeed Kamali Dehghan Russia With anti-Americanism creeping back to the forefront of political rhetoric in Moscow, many in Russia slyly smiled when Romney this year called Russia "our No 1 geopolitical foe".
  • (5) Historians will one day describe the way our streets were covered with a flavoured polymer that we would suck and chew before spitting it out on to the pavement, slyly bunging it under a desk, or foisting it under a chair.
  • (6) It was a deliberate foul, slyly executed in the hope the referee would not see it, and Hughes was probably wise to remove his player a couple of minutes later, especially as Adam's final act was one of those ludicrous attempts from halfway when the opportunity was never on and the shot was wayward in any case.
  • (7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
  • (8) This professionally flippant, slyly populist voice, accepting of kitsch and able to rework it into unintentional comedy, has become the default style not only of TV reviewers but also of viewers.
  • (9) It is Ballard's beach read, designed to be picked up at an airport, consumed poolside and left, mottled with Ambre Solaire and disintegrating, its binding-glue long melted, on a shelf in the villa between the Dibdins and Rendells it is slyly constructed to resemble.
  • (10) Once Othello has determined to take revenge, Iago makes sure to prevent a "relapse", by slyly administering small doses of doubt and pity.
  • (11) When Abra, a telepathic child, pushes into his consciousness asking for help, Danny gets sucked back into the terrain of his childhood, battling a bunch of centuries-old serial killers disguised as RV-driving pensioners (it is sometimes easy to overlook how slyly funny King is) who literally feed off the pain of others.
  • (12) If the painters of the communist GDR wanted to register a protest against the oppressive state, they had to do it slyly, mock-classically, in code: Icarus, tumbling to earth after flying too close to the sun, like members of the dictatoriat deformed by power, was a popular symbol.
  • (13) Blakey had fashioned a more impassioned and dramatic drumming style out of the sometimes wilfully intricate materials of bebop percussion, an instantly recognisable mix of incandescent snare-drum rolls and slyly scattered rimshots.
  • (14) There won’t be any slyly selective intake, or opaque selection of sponsors.
  • (15) Whether people across Africa agree or whether, once again, Achebe may have slyly exposed a ruling elite is a question for history.
  • (16) 35 min: Holland try that clever corner so beloved of Alex Ferguson, one man slyly tapping the ball then wandering off, allowing some other dude to wander over and take up play.
  • (17) As my colleague Suzanne Goldenberg notes: Obama has slyly knocked climate change down a couple of notches from Bloomberg's endorsement, so that it's third behind "a strong economy" and "immigration reform" in Obama's version.
  • (18) Under the Rogers and Ruppersberger proposal, slyly named the “End Bulk Collection Act”, the telephone companies would hold on to phone data.
  • (19) One Harvard professor who was a graduate student under Marcy told BuzzFeed , “anybody of my generation in the field of exoplanets knows that Geoff does this.” And one of the complainants said his harassment was so well-known that “women discouraged other women from working with him.” Decades of work on sexual harassment later, and the best women can do to protect themselves, it seems, is to slyly warn each other away from predatory men.
  • (20) Several people caught up in the leak have slyly insinuated that some could be faked by alleged Russian hackers, while providing no proof that they’ve been altered.

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