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Divide sly into syllables:

sly

How to pronounce sly:

Synonyms for sly:

arch
artful
beguiling
cagey
cagy
crafty
crooked
cunning
cute
deceitful
deceptive
designing
devious
dishonest
dodgy
foxy
fraudulent
guileful
impish
knavish
knowing
mischievous
naughty
roguish
scheming
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Antonyms for sly:

above board
above reproach
above-board
aboveboard
acceptable
accepting
actual
allowable
allowed
amateur
amateurish
apparent
artless
as green as grass
asinine
authentic
authorised
authorized
avowed
awkward
barefaced
behaved
believing
benevolent
blameless
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Other 1-syllable words like sly

Here are some other common words that have 1 syllable, like sly does.

  • squash
  • stain
  • steep
  • bra
  • crooked
  • ride
  • shells
  • spare
  • strive
  • tuck
  • wraps
  • dig
  • hinge
  • kale
  • peel
  • bam
  • built
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  • doc
  • Gore
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  • hawks
  • junk
  • ledge
  • Meg
  • months
  • pat
  • Rayne
  • rides
  • soak
  • swine
  • Troas
  • ah
  • bombs
  • cursed
  • jinx
  • loot
  • Paige
  • queue
  • stall
  • stops
  • vault
  • burp
  • clyde
  • dale
  • DNA
  • dose
  • Earl
  • elk
  • Gus
  • … more
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