unsly

comparative more unsly · superlative most unsly

1. Not sly; lacking slyness

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

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

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   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; […])

   2001, Michael Palmer, Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy

   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.

   2014, Bill James, Snatched