What does wily mean?
Wily means Sly, cunning, full of tricks..
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/ˈwaɪ.li/ · adjective
Sly, cunning, full of tricks..
Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
Of all the medical monsters Peter Hotez could have set out to slay, the Yale University researcher could not have chosen a more wily and obscure villain than the hookworm.
Use wily when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wily means Sly, cunning, full of tricks..
Common synonyms include astute, artful, cautelous, crafty.
Possible antonyms include guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous.
Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
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