Able and Sly

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Able adjective - Having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance.

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Sly and able are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sly" instead an adjective "Able".

Nearby Word: ability

Sly adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.

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Able and sly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Able" instead an adjective "Sly".

Nearby Words: slyness, slyly

The gang was able to restore the time continuum back to what it once was and saved their futures, but Sly went missing after his battle with Le Paradox.

Source: Franchise / Sly Cooper
The fox, called Madadh-Ruadh or Sionnach, is cunning, sly, and able to make fools of those who chase it.

Source: Fantastic Foxes
They run their own hospitals and biotechnology institutions on the sly, while imitating a real human perfectly to the point of being able to bleed and (it is implied) have sex.

Source: Ridiculously Human Robots / Video Games

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