Both Uses
wily
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Story of My Life
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- They told stories of their wonderful feats with fowl, fish and quadruped—how many wild ducks and turkeys they had shot, what "savage trout" they had caught, and how they had bagged the craftiest foxes, outwitted the most clever 'possums and overtaken the fleetest deer, until I thought that surely the lion, the tiger, the bear and the rest of the wild tribe would not be able to stand before these wily hunters.†
Chpt 11wily = clever
- The prattle of the little ones and their pleasure in the stories I told them of elf and gnome, of hero and wily bear, are pleasant things to remember.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(wily) clever and good at tricking others to achieve a goal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)