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Sly dog
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a person who is cunning, clever, and often deceitful in a way that helps them achieve their goals
Disapproving
Informal
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Human
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
sly dogs
Examples
He managed to get out of the meeting early by pretending to be sick — what a sly dog!
