Both Uses of
wily
in
Things Fall Apart
- Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water.
p. 3.6wily = clever
- Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell, and which she no doubt still told to her younger children—stories of the tortoise and his wily ways, and of...
p. 53.5 *
Definition:
clever and good at tricking others to achieve a goal