sly

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Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. 🔊

Every Monday Mr. Whymper visited the farm as had been arranged. He was a slylooking little man with side whiskers, a solicitor in a very small way of business, but sharp enough to have realised earlier than anyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having. 🔊

Sure enough, there in the yard was a large closed van, drawn by two horses, with lettering on its side and a slylooking man in a lowcrowned bowler hat sitting on the driver's seat. 🔊

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