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slee

slee is the alternative form of sly.

Meaning of sly

Adjective

sly (comparative slier or slyer, superlative sliest or slyest)

  1. Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
  2. (having a positive connotation) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
  3. Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
    • a sly trick
  4. Light or delicate; slight; thin.

See all 7 meanings of sly

Proper noun capitalized: Slee

Slee (plural Slees)

  1. A surname.

Forms of slee

Adjective
comparativesleer
superlativesleest
Proper noun
pluralSlees

Origin of slee

* As an English surname, variant of Sly. * Also as an English surname, from the archaic Old English slēa (“grassy slope”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Schlee.

Questions about slee

What does slee mean?
Slee means a surname.
What is slee the alternative form of?
Slee is the alternative form of sly.
What part of speech is slee?
Slee is a proper noun.

Words near slee in the dictionary

  1. sledload
  2. sledloads
  3. Sledmere
  4. sleds
  5. sledsful
  6. slee
  7. sleeby
  8. sleech
  9. sleeched
  10. sleeches
  11. sleeching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slee (page history and authors); Slee (page history and authors); sly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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