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sournois

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adjective
  1. sly, sneaky, underhanded, surreptitious

Used in the library

  • Voyez-vous les sournois qui venaient sans tambours ni trompettes.Do you see the devious who came without drums or trumpets?B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • — Ah! monsieur! reprit Planchet en revenant à son idée mère, que ce m. Bonacieux a quelque chose de sournois dans ses sourcils et de déplaisant dans le jeu de ses lèvres!- Ah! Sir! Reproved Planchet on returning to his mother's idea, that this m. Bonacieux has something sneaky in his eyebrows and unpleasant in the play of his lips!B2Les Trois Mousquetaires

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