Word Meanings - SLYLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.

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• SLYLY
  In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily. Honestly and slyly he it spent. Chaucer.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• SPENT
  Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. Spent ball, a ball shot from a firearm, which reaches an object without having sufficient force to penetrate it. (more info) 1. Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force.
• CRAFTILY
  With craft; artfully; cunningly.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• HONESTLY
  1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. Chaucer. 2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. To get honestly. A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• FORESPENT
  Already spent; gone by; past. Shak.
• DISHONESTLY
  In a dishonest manner.
• FORSPENT
  Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.