wily
[wahy-lee]
- full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
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duplicity, art, infidelity, falsehood, fraud, trickery, chicanery, deceit, mendacity, treachery, corruption, graft, criminality, guile, artfulness, artifice, craftiness, slyness, astuteness, wilinessExamples from the Web for wiliness
Historical Examples of wiliness
Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own.
St. Martin's SummerRafael Sabatini
Bobby smiled up at him in smug satisfaction over his own wiliness.
The Dominant StrainAnna Chapin Ray
I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
FrankensteinMary W. Shelley
"What the brethren wanted in strength they had in wiliness," he says.
The Beginners of a NationEdward Eggleston.
It depends a lot upon the wiliness of the fox he's in pursuit of.
The Riddle of the Spinning WheelMary E. Hanshew
wily
- characterized by or proceeding from wiles; sly or crafty
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