Wily

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Full of wiles; cunning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. sly, cunning, full of tricks
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of wiles; subtle; cunning; crafty; sly.
  • Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning), designing, deceitful, foxy, diplomatic, delusive, insidious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by skill in deception
  • Equivalent
    artful   
    Variant
    wiliest    wilier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sly    crafty    cunning    artful    subtle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Reilly    Riley    Smiley    Wylie    dryly    highly    kiley    riley    shyly    slyly   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crafty    unscrupulous    shrewd    astute    cunning    resourceful    artful    adroit    skilful    ruthless