Wily

//ˈwaɪ.li//

"Wily" in a Sentence (6 examples)

A wily hunter, Christopher Columbus once donned a red riding hood and went into the forest. Without a doubt, he attracted the Big Bad Wolf, grabbed him, and dragged the screaming wolf back to his ship.

I know him, a wily, cheeky lad.

Tom is a very wily person.

He plays a wily detective with a penchant for disguises.

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

Of all the medical monsters Peter Hotez could have set out to slay, the Yale University researcher could not have chosen a more wily and obscure villain than the hookworm.

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