| 单词 |
slyness |
| 释义 |
slyness|ˈslaɪnɪs|
Also 4 slegh-, 5 sleey-, 8–9 Sc. slee-, 7 sliness(e.
[f. sly a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being sly († or wise).
1357Lay Folks Catech. 424 The fift vertu.. [is] slegh[t]e or sleghness [L. prudencia]. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xix. 22 Ther is certeyn sleeynesse, and it is wicke. c1440Promp. Parv. 459 Slynesse, idem quod sleythe. 1530Palsgr. 271 Slynesse, finesse. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1110 Most good men detesting the lightnes of the one, the ambition of the other, and the slinesse of the third. c1718Swift Sheridan's Submission iv, Then, with wonted wile and slyness, They left me in the lurch. 1791A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 23 In Allan's verse sage sleeness we admire. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. iv. 86 The eye turned round to look at you without turning the head indicates generally slyness or suspicion. 1885Manch. Exam. 22 Sept. 5/3 There is a certain slyness and caution about him.
b. A sly or covert allusion. rare.
1823Moore Fables ii. 106 And satires at the Court they levelled, And small lampoons, so full of slynesses. |
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