Both Uses of
wily
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- But, it would have been a stranger contrast still, to have read the hearts that were beating side by side; to have laid bare the gentle innocence of the one, and the rugged villainy of the other; to have hung upon the guileless thoughts of the affectionate girl, and been amazed that, among all the wily plots and calculations of the old man, there should not be one word or figure denoting thought of death or of the grave.†
Chpt 10
- 'What is it now, I say,' pursued the wily usurer, 'or what has it a chance of being?†
Chpt 47 *
Definition:
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(wily) clever and good at tricking others to achieve a goal