unsly

English

Etymology

From Middle English unsly, unslei, unsley, unsleiȝ, unsleȝe, unsleeiȝ, equivalent to un- +‎ sly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈslaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Adjective

unsly (comparative more unsly, superlative most unsly)

1. Not sly; lacking slyness
   • 2001, Michael Palmer, Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy:

     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; […] )

   • 2014, Bill James, Snatched:

     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.

   • 2017, Colin Hogg, The High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis:

     Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.

Anagrams

• sunly