What does unsly mean?
Unsly means Not sly; lacking slyness.
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/ʌnˈslaɪ/ · adjective
Not sly; lacking slyness.
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; […])
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.
Jazz was the pop music of the times and musicians in the know began peppering their songs with sly and unsly drug references.
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Unsly means Not sly; lacking slyness.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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; […])
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