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wily

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"Crafty"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ˈwaɪ.li/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ilwyStarts with WEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1W2I3L4Y

Definitions

  1. 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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