{
  "sly":{
    "clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means":{
      "examples":[
        "the movie pairs a sly , dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "artful",
        "beguiling",
        "cagey",
        "cagy",
        "crafty",
        "cunning",
        "cute",
        "designing",
        "devious",
        "dodgy",
        "foxy",
        "guileful",
        "scheming",
        "shrewd",
        "slick",
        "subtle",
        "tricky",
        "wily"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "astute",
        "facile",
        "glib",
        "sharp",
        "crooked",
        "deceitful",
        "deceptive",
        "dishonest",
        "fraudulent",
        "insinuating",
        "knavish",
        "Machiavellian",
        "oblique",
        "serpentine",
        "shady",
        "shifty",
        "slippery",
        "sneaky",
        "treacherous",
        "underhand",
        "underhanded",
        "unscrupulous",
        "backhanded",
        "double-dealing",
        "hypocritical",
        "insincere",
        "left-handed",
        "mealy",
        "mealymouthed",
        "smooth-tongued",
        "two-faced",
        "circuitous",
        "circular",
        "roundabout",
        "clandestine",
        "concealed",
        "covert",
        "furtive",
        "hugger-mugger",
        "secret",
        "stealthy",
        "surreptitious",
        "undercover",
        "calculating",
        "plotting"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "obvious",
        "open",
        "patent",
        "plain",
        "public",
        "unconcealed",
        "aboveboard",
        "candid",
        "direct",
        "forthright",
        "frank",
        "honest",
        "natural",
        "outspoken",
        "plainspoken",
        "real",
        "simple",
        "sincere",
        "straightforward",
        "unaffected",
        "unpretending",
        "unpretentious",
        "unvarnished",
        "childlike",
        "impressionable",
        "simpleminded",
        "unsophisticated",
        "unworldly",
        "unforced",
        "unstudied",
        "trustful",
        "trusting"
      ],
      "antonyms":[
        "artless",
        "guileless",
        "ingenuous",
        "innocent",
        "undesigning"
      ]
    },
    "given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions":{
      "examples":[
        "why, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party",
        "a sly undercover police officer"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "furtive",
        "shady",
        "shifty",
        "slippery",
        "sneaking",
        "sneaky",
        "stealthy"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "artful",
        "crafty",
        "cunning",
        "devious",
        "foxy",
        "guileful",
        "slick",
        "wily",
        "close",
        "closemouthed",
        "reticent",
        "secretive",
        "clandestine",
        "covert",
        "dark",
        "deceitful",
        "deceiving",
        "deceptive",
        "devious",
        "duplicitous",
        "trickish",
        "tricky",
        "underhand",
        "underhanded",
        "cheating",
        "crooked",
        "defrauding",
        "dishonest",
        "dissembling",
        "double-dealing",
        "knavish",
        "two-faced",
        "lying",
        "mendacious",
        "untrustworthy",
        "untruthful",
        "insidious",
        "perfidious",
        "serpentine",
        "treacherous"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "aboveboard",
        "forthright",
        "plainspoken",
        "straightforward",
        "candid",
        "direct",
        "foursquare",
        "frank",
        "open",
        "plain",
        "honest",
        "trustworthy",
        "truthful"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness":{
      "examples":[
        "a sly sense of humor"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "arch",
        "devilish",
        "elvish",
        "espi\u00e8gle",
        "impish",
        "knavish",
        "leprechaunish",
        "mischievous",
        "pixie",
        "pixy",
        "pixieish",
        "prankish",
        "puckish",
        "rascally",
        "roguish",
        "scampish",
        "tricksy",
        "waggish",
        "wicked"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "antic",
        "coltish",
        "coy",
        "frisky",
        "frolicsome",
        "kittenish",
        "playful",
        "sportful",
        "sportive",
        "gay",
        "happy",
        "lighthearted",
        "whimsical",
        "energetic",
        "lively",
        "spirited",
        "sprightly",
        "artful",
        "crafty",
        "cunning",
        "trickish",
        "tricky",
        "wily",
        "misbehaving",
        "naughty",
        "troublemaking",
        "pestering",
        "riling",
        "teasing"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "grave",
        "grim",
        "sedate",
        "sober",
        "solemn",
        "staid",
        "stern"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "slyness":{
    "skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means":{
      "examples":[
        "the slyness with which the FBI agent infiltrated the subversive organization without their knowledge was indeed impressive"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "artfulness",
        "artifice",
        "caginess",
        "cageyness",
        "canniness",
        "craft",
        "craftiness",
        "cunning",
        "cunningness",
        "deviousness",
        "foxiness",
        "guile",
        "guilefulness",
        "slickness",
        "sneakiness",
        "subtleness",
        "subtlety",
        "wiliness"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "calculation",
        "care",
        "design",
        "savvy",
        "sharpness",
        "shrewdness",
        "cleverness",
        "ingeniousness",
        "ingenuity",
        "inventiveness",
        "ease",
        "facility",
        "finesse",
        "deceitfulness",
        "duplicity",
        "shiftiness",
        "underhandedness"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "slyly":{
    "as in craftily , cunningly":{
      "examples":[],
      "synonyms":[],
      "near synonyms":[
        "archly",
        "calculatingly",
        "craftily",
        "cunningly",
        "furtively",
        "insidiously",
        "sharply",
        "shiftily",
        "slickly",
        "underhand",
        "underhanded",
        "underhandedly",
        "artfully",
        "cannily",
        "deceitfully",
        "deceptively",
        "deviously",
        "dishonestly",
        "falsely",
        "flatteringly",
        "sycophantically",
        "unctuously",
        "affectedly",
        "artificially",
        "hypocritically",
        "insincerely",
        "pretentiously",
        "unnaturally"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "artlessly",
        "guilelessly",
        "ingenuously",
        "innocently",
        "naively",
        "na\u00efvely",
        "naturally",
        "sincerely",
        "unaffectedly",
        "unfeignedly",
        "unpretentiously",
        "genuinely",
        "honestly",
        "simply",
        "truly",
        "freely",
        "openheartedly",
        "openly"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  }
}