Nasty and Sly

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Nasty

Nasty adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.
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Sly and nasty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sly" instead an adjective "Nasty".
Nearby Word: nastily

Sly

Sly adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.
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Nasty and sly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective "Sly".
Nearby Words: slyness, slyly

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  • Comic Strip / Mother Goose and Grimm In the strip for September 6th 2013◊, there's a Siamese cat and Grimm is looking for "the other one", a reference to Disney's Lady and the Tramp which featured a pair of sly and nasty Siamese cats.
    Source: Comic Strip / Mother Goose and Grimm
  • Pilots throughout the X-Wing Series, especially in the novels, have a nasty habit of running a full load of combat missions — often one every few days or every day — while also dealing with other, more cloak-and-dagger threats on the sly.
    Source: Triple Shifter
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