What's the difference between sleightly and slightly?
Sleightly
Definition:
(adv.) Cinningly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it's presented as a boys' story, rooted in historical reality, it also demonstrates Stevenson's artistic sleight-of-hand.
(2) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
(3) Bewley lifts the lid on a world of sleight of hand, massage and plain lying by omission in the world of fertility statistics.
(4) This sort of sleight of hand is what we lawyers call " sharp practice ".
(5) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(6) A fluorescent analog of phosphatidylethanolamine [palmitoyl-C6-NBD)-PE), which also exhibits transmembrane movement at the plasma membrane at 7 degrees C (Sleight, R. G., and Pagano, R. E. (1985) J. Biol.
(7) At times it has obfuscated its message on the bailout but Syriza's most impressive sleight of hand has been its attempt to appeal to incompatible constituencies.
(8) The tone is set once the charlady answers the telephone with the words: “Hello, the drawing room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring.” The critics first comment on the action from the stalls and then, by a Pirandellian sleight of hand, become a part of it.
(9) He predicted: "There is a real, real danger that the Liberal Democrats could implode – their role has been a sleight of hand."
(10) The Institute for Fiscal Studies played a blinder, as usual, pointing out the Treasury's sleights of hand and misrepresentations.
(11) Instead, as we have reported, HMRC is using sleight of hand to release information about VAT to credit reference agencies who have been disguised as contractors to avoid confidentiality law.
(12) In England, unless championed by Labour, they can just as easily be harnessed by Ukip – or used to justify a Tory constitutional sleight of hand that could derail a Labour government and leave Liverpool and Newcastle at the mercy of a Farageist southern suburbia.
(13) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(14) Green campaigners believe the Lib Dems have been persuaded into allowing higher energy bills to flow into increased profits for nuclear companies by a sleight of hand that lets ministers disguise nuclear subsidies as support for "low-carbon power".
(15) Osborne's budget was a lesson in sleight of hand Read more The moment was ripe for someone – perhaps a child, as in the fable – to stand up and point out that the emperors of the Treasury and the OBR have no clothes; that all these predictions, while not exactly worthless, can’t be relied on to last five weeks let alone five years.
(16) Another tweeted that BGT’s producers should have informed viewers about the sleight of hand before the public decided who to vote for in the final.
(17) Thailand’s friends abroad should not be fooled by this obvious sleight of hand … that effectively provides unlimited and unaccountable powers.” In particular, unlawful detentions of civilian opponents looked set to increase, he suggested .
(18) Scrutiny of the documents suggests it is based on three key assumptions – and one sleight of hand.
(19) Chinese hamster ovary cells maintained in culture medium supplemented with complete serum can grow at nearly normal rates in the presence of phospholipase C for many generations, even though the treatment enhances turnover of cellular phosphatidylcholine (R. Sleight and C. Kent (1983) J. Biol.
(20) "Britain's young people who do not have the skills they need for work should be in training, not on benefits," said Miliband, in a neat bit of sleight of hand that lays the lack of employment in this age group firmly at their own door.
Slightly
Definition:
(adv.) In a slight manner.
(adv.) Slightingly; negligently.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(6) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(7) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(8) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(9) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(10) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(11) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(12) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(13) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(14) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(15) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(16) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(17) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(18) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(19) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(20) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.