unsly

English

Etymology

From Middle English unsly, unslei, unsley, unsleiȝ, unsleȝe, unsleeiȝ, equivalent to un- +‎ sly.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈslaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Adjective

unsly (comparative more unsly, superlative most unsly)

  1. Not sly; lacking slyness
    • 2001, Michael Palmer, Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy:
      Glaucon will play devil's advocate (358c-d, thereby showing himself craftier than Thrasymachus, who is so unsly as to declare himself a wolf, openly, before the sheep; […] )
    • 2014, Bill James, Snatched:
      His brown eyes were keen and lively, not absolutely unsly but not ruthless or egomaniac, either: nobody could run a museum without at least a sliver of slyness.
    • 2017, Colin Hogg, The High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis:
      Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.

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