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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wily \wil"y\, a. compar. wilier; superl. wiliest. from
wile.
full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or
stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful;
subtle. "wily and wise." --chaucer. "the wily snake."
--milton.
1913 webster
this false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.
--south.
1913 webster
syn: cunning; artful; sly; crafty. see cunning.
1913 webster
see also:
wilier wiliest wile cunning
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wily
adj : marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme";
"a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky dik";
"a wily old attorney" syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy,
foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy,
tricky
also: wiliest, wilier
see also:
crafty cunning dodgy foxy guileful knavish
slick sly tricksy tricky wiliest
wilier
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
69 moby thesaurus words for "wily":
byzantine, machiavellian, machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive,
covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid,
designing, devious, diplomatic, false, falsehearted, feline,
finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect,
ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready,
resourceful, sagacious, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty,
shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical,
stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious,
tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced,
underhand, underhanded, vulpine, wary
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