Dirty
Sly
Sly adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.
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In a game with so much debauchery and bloody violence, it's pretty tame, but still part of the sly humour of the series, slipping in dirty puns everywhere.
Source: Video Game / Fable III -
As Sly points our while dishing out a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Le Paradox never actually stole the Coopers' various canes himself, instead leaving it up to his various partners to do all of the dirty work for him.
Source: Non-Action Big Bad - Sly calls him out on this, pointing out that Le Paradox never did the actual stealing; rather, he got his "partners" to do all the dirty work before tossing them aside and claiming credit for what they did.
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