Synonyms of sly
- 1 Syllable
- snook, smart, sharp, arch, mean, shark, shrewd, smooth, snuck, slick, wily
- 2 Syllables
- bluffing, roguish, cunning, clever, devious, plotting, stealthiest, captious, covert, stealthier, thieving, slighty, sneakier, cagier, tricky, impish, dextrous, foxy, cannier, wary, cagey, wormed, foxier, sneaking, secret, stealthy, ribald, wilier, thievish, shifty, crafty, sneaky, canny, backstairs, shiftier, crooked, shrewdest, scheming, savvy, savvies, dodgy, subtle, shrewder, shiftiest, craftier, artful, warier, dickens, sneakiest
- 3 Syllables
- retiary, deceitful, mischievous, streetwise, rascally, insidious, phoniness, conniving, furtive, dishonest, uncandid, ingenious, designing, underhand, astute, cleverest, treacherous, cleverer, vulpine, larcenous, plunderous, argute, intriguing, traitorous, dexterous, lubricious, two-faced, guileful, smooth-spoken, dissembling
- 4 Syllables
- cloak-and-dagger, delusive, illusory, underhanded, elusive, ill-behaved, huggermugger, diplomatic, calculating, unscrupulous, deceptive, dirty-dealing, hole-and-corner, unprincipled, deviceful, evasive, insincere, surreptitious, double-dealing, machiavellian, disingenuous, unconscientious
- 5 Syllables
- dishonorable, innovational, kleptomaniacal, under-the-table, exploitative
- 6 Syllables
- prevaricatory, manipulative