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Meaning of by the sly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

on the sly

dated, not-comparable

Examples

“I read Plutarch, and Shakespeare, and Don Quixote by the sly, and supplied myself in that way with wandering thoughts, while my tutor was assuring me that "an improved man, as distinguished from an ignorant one, was a man who knew the reason why water ran downhill."”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

by the way by thunder by-and-by by'm-by byembye Byronically