wily

wily
adj
1. cunning, crafty, artful, sly, subtle, foxy, Sl. crazy like a fox, Scot, and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey.
2. shifty, slippery, slick, smooth, tricky, fast; insidious, guileful, disingenuous, scheming, plotting, designing, calculating, contriving; deceitful, crooked, dishonest, underhanded, left-handed, Inf. shady; treacherous, perfidious, false, false-hearted, double-dealing, Inf. two-timing, two-faced, Janus-faced.

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  • Wily — Wil y, a. [Compar. {Wilier}; superl. {Wiliest}.] [From {Wile}.] Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle. Wily and wise. Chaucer. The wily snake. Milton. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Wily — Wily in Hieroglyphen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Wily — (böhm. Myth.), eine der Hekate entsprechende Gottheit …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • wily — index artful, collusive, deceptive, delusive, devious, disingenuous, fraudulent, insidious, machiavellian …   Law dictionary

  • wily — c.1300; see WILE (Cf. wile) …   Etymology dictionary

  • wily — *sly, cunning, crafty, tricky, foxy, insidious, guileful, artful Analogous words: astute, sagacious, *shrewd: deceitful, cunning (see corresponding nouns at DECEIT) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • wily — [adj] crafty, clever arch, artful, astute, cagey, crazy like a fox*, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, deep, designing, foxy, greasy*, guileful, insidious, intriguing, knowing, sagacious, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick*, slippery*,… …   New thesaurus

  • wily — ► ADJECTIVE (wilier, wiliest) ▪ skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. DERIVATIVES wiliness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • wily — [wī′lē] adj. wilier, wiliest full of wiles; crafty; sly SYN. SLY …   English World dictionary

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  • wily — adj. wily of (that was wily of him) * * * [ waɪlɪ] wily of (that was wily of him) …   Combinatory dictionary

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