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sliness

sliness is the alternative form of slyness.

Meaning of slyness

Noun

slyness (countable and uncountable, plural slynesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being sly.
    • With his natural slyness, he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being sly.

Origin of sliness

From sly + -ness.

Questions about sliness

What is sliness the alternative form of?
Sliness is the alternative form of slyness.

Words near sliness in the dictionary

  1. slimy sculpin
  2. slimy sculpins
  3. slinch
  4. slinches
  5. Slindon
  6. sliness
  7. Slinfold
  8. sling
  9. sling about
  10. sling along
  11. sling bag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sliness (page history and authors); slyness (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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