Wily

Wil′y

,

Adj.

[

Com

par.

Wilier

;

sup

erl.

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.

This false,

wily

, doubling disposition of mind.

South.

Syn. – Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See

Cunning

.

Wily

WILY

,

Adj.

[from wile.] Cunning; sly; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; subtle; as a wily adversary.

wily

English

Adjective

wily ‎(comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)

sly, cunning, full of tricks
Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

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Translations

sly, cunning

Chinese:
Mandarin: 狡猾 (zh) ‎(jiǎohuá)
Czech: prohnaný
Danish: snu (da)
Dutch: gewiekst (nl), snood (nl)
Finnish: ovela (fi), viekas (fi), juonikas, kiero (fi), luihu, kavala (fi)
French: rusé (fr), perfide (fr)
German: schlau (de)
Greek: πανούργος (el) m ‎(panoúrgos), πονηρός (el) m ‎(ponirós)

Hungarian: ravasz (hu)
Italian: furbo (it), sornione (it) m, subdolo (it)
Japanese: 狡猾な (ja) ‎(こうかつな, kōkatsu-na), 狡い ‎(ずるい, zurui)
Korean: 교활한 (ko) ‎(gyohwal-han)
Maori: hangahangarau
Portuguese: ladino (pt), matreiro (pt), finório (pt)
Russian: хи́трый (ru) ‎(xítryj)
Scottish Gaelic: seòlta
Slovak: prefíkaný (sk)
Swedish: lömsk (sv), slug (sv), illistig

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