Although quite free from slyness, or anything unpleasantly furtive, it had a shut, reserved look when his eyes were cast down.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Well, he was a very sly customer, and if he couldn't get a thing by fair means, he got it by foul, and I have inherited some of his slyness from him.
"St. Peter's Umbrella"
Kálmán Mikszáth
They might have lived together always had it not been for the slyness and greediness of the Fox, who tried to over-reach his companion, who was not nearly so clever as he was.
"The Scottish Fairy Book"
Elizabeth W. Grierson