sly vs sly as a fox

sly

adj
  • Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. 

  • Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle 

  • Light or delicate; slight; thin. 

  • Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice 

adv
  • Slyly. 

sly as a fox

adj
  • Very sly, very cunning. 

How often have the words sly and sly as a fox occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )