| 单词 | wily |
| 释义 | wily (once / 1695 pages) adj Did you fall for that wily door to door salesman's pitch? He must be very slick and tricky to have convinced you to buy a set of new tires, considering you don't have a car. How can you remember the meaning of the adjective wily? Just think about the old Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons. Their aptly named cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote, got his name from a clever play on words. Wile E. is supposed to be cunning, crafty, and clever — in other words, wily. Wile E. is all those things, but unfortunately he was usually bested by that pesky roadrunner anyway. Meep. Meep. WORD FAMILYwily: wilier, wiliest, wilily, wiliness+/wile: wiles, wily USAGE EXAMPLESEven when the wily or wicked mar Austen’s universe, they do not prevail. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Bishop questioned the Chinese media’s suggestion that Trump’s tweets were part of a wily psychological ploy to force trade concessions from Beijing. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) Although today’s wild turkeys are small and wily, that was not true of the turkeys of the Pilgrims’ time. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) adj marked by skill in deception a wily old attorney Syn crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky artful marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft |
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