wily

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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
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