(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.
Surreptitiously
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A new approach is presented to the refractive procedure by adding observation, both surreptitious and direct, as an adjunct, an aid and a supplement to differential diagnosis in a refractive examination and in visual analysis.
(2) Aberrantly low plasma levels are more likely due to surreptitious noncompliance or drug interactions with enzyme inducers such as carbamazepine.
(3) A history of episodic edema and hypokalemia, often attributed in women to surreptitious diuretic abuse, requires a careful search for hypercorticism even in the absence of clinical Cushing's syndrome.
(4) Part of that must be down to the way the language of welfare reform is surreptitiously laced with innuendo about scroungers and skivers.
(5) Controls were compared to Ss receiving 2 deepening techniques or 2 suggestions for positive and negative hallucinations that were surreptitiously enhanced.
(6) It soon emerged that the City Planning Commission had already, surreptitiously, designated the area as blighted.
(7) In 2008, Weatherup gave evidence at the trial of Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan, two men jailed for surreptitiously recording then blackmailing a royal family member over gay sex claims and drug-taking.
(8) When she remained anticoagulated during a 2-month period off of warfarin a plasma analysis detected warfarin indicating she was taking the anticoagulant surreptitiously.
(9) Menezes supported pacification, but said that the drug trade for which Alemão was notorious continues surreptitiously: "It doesn't stop.
(10) In the third and fourth experiments, subjects were led to believe that only on stimulus type would occur but were surreptitiously shown another type on a small number of trials.
(11) Surreptitious self-administration of insulin is an important cause of hypoglycemia.
(12) The present study attempted to assess the effectiveness of commonly used deepening techniques and of surreptitiously provided stimulation on hypnotizability scores, in-hypnosis depth reports, retrospective realness ratings, and the Field Inventory of Hypnotic Depth (Field, 1965).
(13) The longer she remains on the throne, the greater her standing on the world stage and the greater the respect for her – and, therefore, the greater her potential surreptitious influence.
(14) The usefulness of assays for the rapid identification and determination of quantitative plasma levels of warfarin sodium and dicumarol is documented by the case histories of five patients: a man who accidentally took dicumarol for several weeks and developed an acute condition within the abdomen, a man who ingested 500 mg of warfarin sodium in a suicide attempt, a malingering nurse who surreptitiously took dicumarol, a nurse with warfarin intoxication who did not follow dosage prescription because of fear of developing thrombosis, and a woman with calf vein thrombosis who did not ingest the administered warfin sodium becausing of fear of developing bleeding.
(15) Tanni Grey-Thompson was Britain's first disabled sports superstar, but she has become, almost surreptitiously, one of Britain's most high-profile disability rights activists.
(16) Surreptitious diuretic use was found in a patient with longstanding hypokalaemia thought to be due to Bartter's syndrome.
(17) Gary, drunk on surreptitious martinis, dripping blood from his hand which he has cut while trying to trim a hedge, furious with his wife for her insistence that he is "clinically depressed" (and because she has confided in their sons that this is the case), has sneaked to the kitchen liquor cabinet.
(18) A case of surreptitious ingestion of oral anticoagulants is presented.
(19) Yet the 38-year old former State Department official has raised a Snowden-like alarm that Americans' communication data remains highly vulnerable to surreptitious collection by the National Security Agency – and will remain vulnerable despite the legislative fixes wending through Congress to redress the bulk domestic phone data collection Snowden revealed.
(20) Scahill, one of the founders of the Intercept , also last week revealed documents leaked by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden showing the CIA’s years-long effort to break encryption on Apple mobile devices like iPads and iPhones and a related effort by Britain’s GCHQ to surreptitiously retrieve communications data from them.