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Definition of On the sly
1. Adverb. In a furtive manner. "The soldiers were furtively crawling through the night"
Definition of On the sly
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Slyly, in an inconspicuous manner, so as not to be seen; secretly; stealthily. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of On The Sly
Literary usage of On the sly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"There are now no seances at which Bishops and Cabinet Ministers assist on the
sly, and it requires something like an effort of the memory to recall, ..."
2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... Mrs. but if not—and Mr. Mill does not even argue the question—be is really
introducing on the sly an illegitimate element into his Utilitarian system, ..."
3. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"How Men get "Married on the Sly." — How Wives were Driven Crazy by their Wrongs.
— My Father Marries Considerably. — He " Goes in " for the Hand-Cart Girls. ..."
4. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage: Being a Complete Exposé of by Ann Eliza Young (1875)
"How Men get " Married on the Sly." — How Wives were Driven Crazy by their Wrongs.
— My Father Marries Considerably. — He " Goes in " for the Hand-Cart Girls ..."
5. Wife No. 19, Or the Story of a Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young, John Bartholomew Gough, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1876)
"How Men get " Married on the Sly." — How Wives were Driven Crazy by their Wrongs.
— My Father Marries Considerably. ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"... or intoxicating liquors are sold In violation of law "on the sly," not openly
sold, but sold "on the sly," and that if the defendants sold spirituous, ..."