unsly
/ʌnˈslaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unsly
Inflected Forms
more unsly (comparative)
most unsly (superlative)