wily
adjective
full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
wilier
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comparativeof wily.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Factories are now able to supply better quality masks to meet the challenge of wilier new variants, but the communal work continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
I hadn’t heard any of the songs which, people said, were wilier and more mischievous than the straighter, soapier, we’re-in-love-now ballads that defined Disney movies past.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2019
But she’s wilier than you expect, bringing to the part the same vulpine alertness to opportunity she demonstrated as a political Eve Harrington type in “The City of Conversation,” also by Mr. Giardina.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
Cuban is older than me and — by almost any objective standard — wiser, wealthier and wilier.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2016
So far, the fish had proved wilier than they’d imagined.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
