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Examples of wily
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It is a wily force that brings out the worst and most desperate sides of people.
From the ocregister.com
In one of these working vacations, the youngster got upstaged by a wily veteran.
From the time.com
Other wrongdoers remain free while their wily lawyers mount appeal after appeal.
From the economist.com
Goodell has youth on his side, but Selig is wily and I believe he'd fight dirty.
From the washingtonpost.com
For all that, Mr Lukashenka, a former chicken-farm manager, is a wily demagogue.
From the economist.com
He is constantly tougher, more wily, more daring and audacious than anyone else.
From the guardian.co.uk
Their leader, the wily Klaus Franz, campaigned passionately for the Magna deal.
From the freep.com
Unfortunately this is also when we're likely to encounter real-life wily coyotes.
From the ocregister.com
Then the Pistons showed the postseason greenhorns why they are the wily veterans.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Crafty: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
- (wiliness) craft: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- Wily is a text editor created by Gary Capell for Unix computer systems. It is based on Acme, the mouse-centric editing environment for the Plan 9 operating system.
- Sly, cunning, full of tricks
- (wiliness) deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
- A Serval who lost his mother to hunters. He is also accused of stealing and abuse. When he understands Leo's words 'United we stand. Divided we fall,' he joins with the lion to fight hunters. He appears in episode 28, and as a background character in a few other episodes.
- Crafty, sly, tricky, usually deviously so. My online literature collection includes the word 20 times, less than I anticipated. In 16 cases it refers to Satan. ...
- Sly, shrewd, cunning
