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Wily

//ˈwaɪ.li// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Sly, cunning, full of tricks.

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    marked by skill in deception wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.

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