[ adv ] in an artful manner <adv.all> he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announcedhad ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?
Slyly \Sly"ly\, adv. In a sly manner; shrewdly; craftily.
Honestly and slyly he it spent. --Chaucer.
Now comes "Clarence," a gentle, at times slyly funny, computer-age variation of "Life" that cable television's The Family Channel is showing tonight and again Friday and Sunday.
Even the B-52s politics are toe-tapping: The slyly titled "Bushfire" condemns the burning of South American rain forests.