Definitions
Clever and tricky in a deceptive way.
Word origin
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
Used in a sentence
“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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Crafty”4 letters
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