wily
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wily
- /ˈwaɪ.li/
Sounds like Wiley, Wylie, Wylye · Rhymes with -aɪli
Where it comes from
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
adjective wilier · more wily · wiliest · most wily
- Sly, cunning, full of tricks. Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
