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Meaning of unsly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/ʌnˈslaɪ/

Definitions

Not sly; lacking slyness

Examples

“Glaucon will play devil's advocate (358c-d, thereby showing himself craftier than Thrasymachus, who is so unsly as to declare himself a wolf, openly, before the sheep; […])”
“His brown eyes were keen and lively, not absolutely unsly but not ruthless or egomaniac, either: nobody could run a museum without at least a sliver of slyness.”
“Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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