unsly
adj/ʌnˈslaɪ/
Etymology
From Middle English unsly, unslei, unsley, unsleiȝ, unsleȝe, unsleeiȝ, equivalent to un- + sly.
- inherited from unsly
Definitions
Not sly
Not sly; lacking slyness
- 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; […])
- 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.
- Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for unsly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA