wily

English - Turkish

Definition of wily in English Turkish dictionary: cingöz; sahtekar; kurnaz; {s} cin fikirli; {s} şeytan; wilinessduzenbazlık; oyunbaz
wiliness: kurnazlık
wiliness: {i} şeytanlık
wiliness: {i} üçkâğıtçılık
wiliness: {i} hinlik

English - English

Definition of wily in English English dictionary: sly, cunning, full of tricks
Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.; {a} sly, cunning, arch, artful, crafty; If you describe someone or their behaviour as wily, you mean that they are clever at achieving what they want, especially by tricking people. His appointment as prime minister owed much to the wily manoeuvring of the President. = cunning. clever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people = cunning (wile; WILES); Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle; marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney"; {s} cunning, tricky, deceptive
wily as a fox: sly, cunning, shrewd
wiliness: deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
wilily: {a} slily, cunningly, archly, fraudulently
wiliness: {n} cunning craft, guile, deceit, fraud
as wily as a fox: crafty, cunning
wilier: Comparative of wily
wiliest: the most wily
wiliness: The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile
wiliness: {i} state or quality of being wily; cleverness, cunning; guile

wily

Hyphenation

wi·ly

wayli

/ˈwīlē/ /ˈwaɪliː/

() From wile (“ruse, trick”) + -y

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