单词	wiliness
释义	wilywil‧y /ˈwaɪli/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINwily Origin: 1200-1300 wile; ➔ WILES Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES 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. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorclever 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. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► 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]
随便看	self-doubt self-drive self-educated self-effacement self-effacing self-employed self-employment self-esteem self-evident self-examination self-explanatory self-expression self-fulfilling self-governing self-government self-harm self-help selfie self-image self-importance self-important self-importantly self-imposed self-improvement self-indulgence

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