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Definition of wily in English: wilyadjectivewilier, wiliest ˈwʌɪliˈwaɪli Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. Example sentencesExamples - Completing the family portrait are his ever-compliant wife and wily old dad.
- It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar.
- The scene is now set for a series of double-crosses where the wily Carol emerges as the sharpest operator of them all.
- He had made one mistake, he had not counted on the skill and determination of his wily opponent.
- In verity, the foreign debt issue has already put Zambia on a wild economic frontier in this wily world.
- The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night.
- I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world.
- He's like that wily friend who's always getting you into trouble but whom you can't help but forgive.
- I'm no technician, but a wily old trader once told me to ignore the news and trust the charts.
- But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole.
- But scientists are finding that the wily creatures can stop cancer in its tracks.
- As it turns out, uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.
- His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer.
- He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.
- Even the wily street vendors are offering their goods at genuine bargain prices.
- Others fought over what fell, scampering across the yard playing wily comedies of keep-away.
- But that would be a crass sort of opinion to attribute to a wily man like Pilate.
- Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
- He seems less the wily fighting fox and more the cornered stag.
- As a wily guerilla leader and resistance fighter, he deserves respect.
Synonyms shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny, smart crafty, cunning, artful, sly, scheming, calculating, guileful, disingenuous, devious, Machiavellian deceitful, deceptive, Janus-faced, dishonest, cheating, double-dealing informal tricky, foxy British informal fly Scottish & Northern English informal pawky North American informal heads-up South African informal slim archaic subtle rare vulpine, carny
Derivatives adverb ˈwʌɪlɪliˈwaɪlɪli Whereupon the Apprentice Wizard wilily watched the wily Master Wizard for a while and after that while whispered wonderingly, ‘Is that all it means, oh wise and wonderful Sir?’
noun ˈwʌɪlɪnəsˈwaɪlinəs It's cold, everybody's wearing cheap waterproofs or knackered jumpers, most people have an expression halfway between habitual wiliness and gutted defeat. Example sentencesExamples - The success of this programme is largely due to the tremendous support of local employers who have welcomed trainees into their businesses with a wiliness that has truly worked.
- And if you've played for several seasons, you'd know not to underestimate the wiliness of the old fogies.
- But one person's skulduggery is another's wiliness.
- A fiend for organising mega cultural events in college, young Ismail's wiliness and wheedling skills come to the fore in organising mega cultural events in college.
Rhymes drily, kylie, Riley, shyly, slyly, smiley, Smily, wryly Definition of wily in US English: wilyadjectiveˈwīlēˈwaɪli Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. Example sentencesExamples - Completing the family portrait are his ever-compliant wife and wily old dad.
- But scientists are finding that the wily creatures can stop cancer in its tracks.
- His vulnerability, his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer.
- I'm no technician, but a wily old trader once told me to ignore the news and trust the charts.
- But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole.
- In verity, the foreign debt issue has already put Zambia on a wild economic frontier in this wily world.
- As a wily guerilla leader and resistance fighter, he deserves respect.
- But that would be a crass sort of opinion to attribute to a wily man like Pilate.
- As it turns out, uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.
- Others fought over what fell, scampering across the yard playing wily comedies of keep-away.
- The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night.
- He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.
- He seems less the wily fighting fox and more the cornered stag.
- The scene is now set for a series of double-crosses where the wily Carol emerges as the sharpest operator of them all.
- Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
- Even the wily street vendors are offering their goods at genuine bargain prices.
- He had made one mistake, he had not counted on the skill and determination of his wily opponent.
- It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar.
- I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world.
- He's like that wily friend who's always getting you into trouble but whom you can't help but forgive.
Synonyms shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny, smart
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