Sly vs Assiduous - What's the difference?
sly | assiduous |
Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; — in a good sense.
Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.
Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Slyly.
Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
* 1831 , , The Surgeon's Daughter , ch. 2:
* 1880 , , Washington Square , ch. 33:
* 1917 , , "Bill the Bloodhound" in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories :
* 2009 , Will Pavia , "
As adjectives the difference between sly and assiduous
is that sly is artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily while assiduous is hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.As an adverb sly
is slyly.sly
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
Synonyms
* artful * cunning * knowing * sharp * crafty * shrewd * shifty * sly as a fox * slim * wily * See alsoDerived terms
* sly as a fox * slyboots * slynessExternal links
* *Adverb
Anagrams
* ----assiduous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.
- He died after three weeks' illness, during which Mrs. Penniman, as well as his daughter, had been assiduous at his bedside.
- A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections.
Allen Klein, accountant turned manager of the Beatles, dies at 77," The Times (UK), 6 July:
- Klein rose to prominence in the 1960s by assiduous application of accounting methods to the music industry.