Complete Definition of "wily"

English

Etymology
From "wile": ruse, trick

Pronunciation
/waili:/
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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪli|-aɪli

Adjective
en-adj|wili|er|more

  1. sly, cunning, full of tricks

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

Translations
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Chinese: �� (jiao3.hua2)
Danish: snu
Finnish: ovela, viekas, juonikas, kiero, luihu, kavala
French: rusé
Greek: �ανο��γο� (panurgos) m, �ονη��� (poniros) m
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Italian: furbo
Korean: ��� (gyo.hwal.han)
Russian: �и���й (hitryĭ)
Swedish: lömsk

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