wily
adjective
full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
wilily
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a word derived from
wily.
Example Sentences
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“Ah do, Mary Poppins! You look so nice in your new gloves,” said Michael wilily.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
The enfants terrible had wilily caught his lordship in the corridor, and made their own terms.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford
In se'enteen hunder an' forty-nine, Satan took stuff to mak' a swine, And cuist it in a corner; But wilily he chang'd his plan, And shaped it something like a man.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
He wilily closed his door, and after a brief struggle, captured the bird,—which he, forthwith, secured, by shutting it up in the oaken corner cupboard, which served him for wardrobe, larder, and coal-cellar.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
But his antagonists wilily beset him behind and before.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
