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wilywil‧y /ˈwaɪli/ adjective   wilyOrigin: 1200-1300 wile; ➔ WILES - a wily businessman
- Breen had a reputation for being a tough and wily negotiator.
- The Fawcett brothers were too wily to be caught, and the local residents could get no help from the law.
- All these benefits were acquired by a wily diplomacy.
- But Rose knew that wily Grandpa had quietly saved enough cloth to make a few high quality, black market clothes.
- Even then his response was wily.
- It had grown old and wily.
- The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning.
- The idea of the touring professional as wily entrepreneur was nearly dead.
- The Ingushetians have been more patient and wily than their hotheaded Chechen neighbors.
- There is Achilles, the fearless hothead; the courageous and disciplined Hector; and the wily, imaginative Odysseus.
clever in a dishonest or secret way► cunning a cunning person gets what they want by thinking carefully about it, making secret plans, and deceiving people: · Hawkeye was very cunning - he always waited until his enemy was alone and unarmed before making his attack.· She's a cunning little devil! She left for school as usual, and then went into town instead with her friends. ► sly a sly person secretly deceives people and is always thinking of ways to get advantages for themselves: · Eliot looked sly and deceitful, as though he wasn't telling us the whole truth. · He's a sly old devil isn't he! Nobody knew he had as much money as that!on the sly (=secretly and in a way that deceives people): · My parents didn't approve, but we continued to meet on the sly. ► crafty a crafty person is good at getting what they want by planning carefully and secretly deceiving people, often in a way that other people admire: · Jerry was crafty -- he got into the match free by crawling under the fence.· Crafty cyber-thieves have found that they can steal a lot of money in electronic bank thefts with very little risk. ► wily a wily person has had a lot of experience of getting what they want by tricking people, so that it is very difficult to trick them: · Breen had a reputation for being a tough and wily negotiator.· The Fawcett brothers were too wily to be caught, and the local residents could get no help from the law. ► wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird- I hadn't noticed what a weird old bird Ned was, either.
- Just so. Funny old bird.
clever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people SYN cunning:  a wily politician—wiliness noun [uncountable] |