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subdolous, a. Now rare.|ˈsʌbdələs|
[ad. late L. subdolōsus or f. its source subdolus, f. sub- sub- 19 + dolus cunning.]
Crafty, cunning, sly.
1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. R iij, The subdolous crafte and deceate of Satan. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A 2 b, The subdolous Machiavellian. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. 65 Illusive simulations and subdolous artifices. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. 269 The King was troubled, lest this subdolous and eloquent man should shake his resolution. 1843Syd. Smith Lett. Amer. Debts i, The subdolous press of America contends that the English..would act with their own debt in the same manner. 1880W. Cory Mod. Engl. Hist. i. 102 Nor has any maxim so subdolous as this been devised to abridge the freedom of Britons.
Hence ˈsubdolously adv., ˈsubdolousness.
1635D. Person Varieties i. 28 Take heed of the subdolousnesse of their proposition, which is not universally true. 1643Baker Chron. (1653) 554 See the subdolousnesse of this man. 1681Evelyn Let. to Pepys 6 Dec. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 260, I neither would, nor honestly could, conceal..how subdolously they dealt. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 345 Whisky..mixed subdolously with burnt brown sugar. 1862T. A. Trollope Marietta xxii, Nanni had subdolously stretched out his hand sideways..to administer a squeeze to a rosy little hand that timidly stole out half-way to meet his. |