Sample Sentences forwily (editor-reviewed)
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Don't underestimate her. She is a wily campaigner.wily = clever and good at tricking others
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The wily fox avoided the trap and managed to get into the chicken coop.wily = clever
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Don't underestimate that wily old attorney.wily = clever and good at tricking others
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She is known for her wily ways.
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He is so speedy, so wily, that mall workers long ago gave up trying to catch him. (source)wily = clever
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How wily is she to have discovered this path into the food and to be able to replicate it so neatly? (source)
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The Devil, as Reverend Hale said, is a wily one, and, until an hour before he fell, even God thought him beautiful in Heaven. (source)wily = tricky
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I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I know you shoot for sport, but have you ever hunted an animal wilier than you?† (source)
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I am so cunning, crafty and clever, so filled with deceit, guile and chicanery, such a knave, so shrewd, cagey as well as calculating, as diabolical as I am vulpine, as tricky as I am untrustworthy ...well, I told you there were not words invented yet to explain how great my brain is, but let me put it this way: the world is several million years old and several billion people have at one time or another trod upon it, but I, Vizzini the Sicilian, am, speaking with pure candor and modesty, the slickest, sleekest, sliest and wiliest fellow who has yet come down the pike.† (source)
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But Zia turned out to be a very wily man. (source)wily = clever and good at tricking others to achieve a goal
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Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness.† (source)
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In all am I scattered, and whensoever thou wiliest, thou gatherest Me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.† (source)
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Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water. (source)wily = clever
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And when I have paid for the policeman who protects me and, if I live in a country where conscription is in force, served in the army which guards my house and land from the invader, I am quits with society: for the rest I counter its might with my wiliness.† (source)
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And a wily one too. (source)
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