[Sửa] Ranh mãnh, quỷ quyệt, láu cá; giả nhân giả nghĩa; tâm ngẩm tầm ngầm

sly dog

thằng cha tâm ngẩm tầm ngầm

[Sửa] Kín đáo, bí mật

on the sly

kín đáo, không kèn không trống

[Sửa] Hiểu biết, tinh khôn

[Sửa] Tinh nghịch, tinh quái, hay đùa nghịch, ranh ma

[Sửa] Adj.

[Sửa] Cunning, artful, crafty, clever, wily, guileful,underhand(ed), deceitful, treacherous, foxy, scheming, plotting,designing, conniving, furtive, shrewd, sneaky, stealthy,insidious, devious, disingenuous, tricky, shifty, sharp, canny,Colloq shady: It was devilishly sly of him to manoeuvre youinto paying for his party. 2 impish, elfish, roguish,mischievous, puckish, devilish, scampish, naughty, arch,waggish: Even as he was flirting with Allison he was givingAntonia sly, conspiratorial winks.

[Sửa] N.

[Sửa] On the sly. slyly or slily, quietly, surreptitiously,covertly, stealthily, furtively, sneakily, underhandedly,clandestinely, Colloq on the q.t. or Q.T., on the side:Although her parents had forbidden her to see him again, Antoniacontinued to meet Kevin on the sly.

[Sửa] Adj.

[Sửa] (slyer, slyest) 1 cunning; crafty; wily.

[Sửa] A (of aperson) practising secrecy or stealth. b (of an action etc.)done etc. in secret.

[Sửa] Hypocritical; ironical.

[Sửa] Knowing;arch; bantering; insinuating.

[Sửa] Austral. & NZ sl. (esp. ofliquor) illicit.