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Definition of wiliness in English English dictionary
- deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
- {n} cunning craft, guile, deceit, fraud
- The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile
- {i} state or quality of being wily; cleverness, cunning; guile
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- 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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- {a} sly, cunning, arch, artful, crafty
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- If you describe someone or their behaviour as wily, you mean that they are clever at achieving what they want, especially by tricking people. His appointment as prime minister owed much to the wily manoeuvring of the President. = cunning. clever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people = cunning (wile; WILES)
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- Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle
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- 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 Dik"; "a wily old attorney"
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- {s} cunning, tricky, deceptive
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