[
US
/ˈwaɪɫi/
]
[ UK /wˈaɪli/ ]
[ UK /wˈaɪli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by skill in deception
deep political machinations
sly as a fox
tricky Dick
deep political machinations
a slick evasive answer
a wily old attorney
a foxy scheme
cunning men often pass for wise
How To Use wily In A Sentence
- Combined with the snowily austere imagery of the scene, the effect is chilling.
- A wily fox will outrun a pack of hounds, but never a bullet.
- Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
- Foxes are supposed to be wily creatures.
- He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.
- Large schools of old wives, bullseyes and big trevally, too wily for the fishermen, took refuge here.
- But the southpaw was able to avert further trouble as he got both Sean Casey and Wily Mo Pena to foul out. USATODAY.com
- But he's a wily old shark. The Sun
- The skill of stitchery is developed as the kids sew the likes of the ‘Wily Wire Walker’ and the ‘Amazing Aerialist.’
- As it turns out, uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.