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Sentence examples for the wily from inspiring English sources

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the wily

adjective

Sly, cunning, full of tricks

  • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

synonyms

cunningslytricksyguilefulcrafty

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The wily, terrible gypsy.

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The New Yorker

The Wily Groundhog Q.

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The New York Times

Yet the wily man remains a force.

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The Economist

The wily German beamed courtside.

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The Guardian - Sport

Rivals called him the "wily Levantine".

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The Guardian

Me, I'm the wily old man.

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The New York Times - Sports

Few knew that better than the wily Mr Mikhalkov.

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The Economist

Again he's represented by the wily Sandy Stern.

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The New York Times - Books

The wily Cook is thinking along similar lines.

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Independent

The wily president cannot be counted out yet.

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The Economist

Will the wily predator seduce and abandon the mousy milliner?

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The New York Times
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