flynessn.
/ˈflʌɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈflaɪnᵻs/ The quality or fact of being ‘fly’; wide-awakeness.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > astuteness
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1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 8 Mar. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) Each conviction is a lesson to the youthful politician that flyness and smartness cannot be pleaded in mitigation of contempt of honor.
1925 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Wk. United Free Church Scotl. June 247 Free from any of that holy flyness, with which, justly or not, ecclesiastics are sometimes credited.
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