(v. t.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
(v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.
(adv.) Slyly.
Example Sentences:
(1) High pressure liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay showed marked heterogeneity of SPLI and SLI.
(2) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(3) "It is incredibly hard work," she says with a sly grin.
(4) The concentration of somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) was determined by specific radioimmunoassay in the cerebroventricular fluid of patients with tumours of the basal midline and compared to findings in patients with multiple sclerosis.
(5) These neurons are known to also contain somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI).
(6) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
(7) Minimal pairs differing only in the voicing feature of the initial consonant were produced by four SLI and four language-matched NL children.
(8) We studied the effect of tetrahydroaminoacridine (THA) on cerebrospinal fluid somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (CSF-SLI) in probable Alzheimer disease (AD) patients (n = 20) who took part in an open THA treatment trial.
(9) The characteristics of children with specific language impairment (SLI) attending four language units in the north-west of England are examined.
(10) This work was undertaken to study the effect of glucose on pancreaticoduodenal and peripheral venous somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) levels in dogs.
(12) Grigson is clearly relishing the task ahead, having already toured major investors and playing a key role in the pay dispute, which ultimately resulted in Sly Bailey stepping down after a decade running the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People and 140 regional newspapers late on Thursday.
(13) The most conspicuous feature of the elution profiles was the preponderance of the peak coeluting with synthetic somatostatin-14, whereas the peaks comigrating with synthetic somatostatin-28 and attributable to precursor-like SLI represented only minor or trace amounts of total immunoreactivity.
(14) Yet the whole thing was sly and subversive, for it whispered, see, see what you have been missing.
(15) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
(16) SLI levels were found to be significantly lower on day 4 after delivery, compared to 3-4 months later.
(17) There was a weak but statistically significant correlation between SLI values in CSF and neuropsychological test scores.
(18) The ME was microdissected for determination of SLI content.
(19) Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, said that the company made £25m in savings and would have increased adjusted operating profits year-on-year if not for a £22m rise in newsprint prices.
(20) A great interindividual variation in SLI levels was observed (a range of 0.02 to 5.30 nanograms per milligram of weight).
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.