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Definition of "slier" []

  • A comparative of sly. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "slier" in a sentence
  • "Perhaps older females simply are slier at expressing their aggression."
  • "The eventual recognition of the Carters as progenitors of country music's more harmonious, domesticated, Sunday-friendly side, and of "Singing Brakeman" Rodgers as the father of country's more individualist, slier, more raucous Saturday-night music, led the Bristol Sessions to be referred to as "The Big Bang of Country Music.""
  • "The other boys pulled as many pranks as he did, or more - they were just slier about it, and they didn't get caught because no one was trying to catch them the way everyone seemed to be trying to catch him."