wily
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /waɪ.li/
wily (comparative wilier, superlative wiliest)
- sly, cunning, full of tricks
- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
- See also Thesaurus:wily
- French: rusé, perfide, fourbe
- German: schlau, listig, gerissen
- Italian: furbo, sornione, subdolo
- Portuguese: ladino, matreiro, finório
- Russian: хи́трый
- Spanish: astuto, listo, pillo
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