Slyness vs Deceive - What's the difference?
slyness | deceive |
(uncountable) The state or quality of being being sly.
(countable) The result or product of being sly.
To trick or mislead.
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As a noun slyness
is (uncountable) the state or quality of being being sly.As a verb deceive is
to trick or mislead.slyness
English
Noun
- ''With his natural slyness , he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
Synonyms
* craftinessdeceive
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}