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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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How wily is she to have discovered this path into the food and to be able to replicate it so neatly? (source)wily = clever
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He is so speedy, so wily, that mall workers long ago gave up trying to catch him. (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)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 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)wiliest = the most clever
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I know you shoot for sport, but have you ever hunted an animal wilier than you?† (source)wilier = more clever
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9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.† (source)wilily = in a clever manner
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And a wily one too. (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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In all am I scattered, and whensoever thou wiliest, thou gatherest Me; and gathering Me, thou gatherest Thyself.† (source)wiliest = the most clever
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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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I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.† (source)
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