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Sentence count:53+2 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2017-02-22Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: artfulcannyclevercraftycunningfoxyshiftyshrewdslipperyslysmoothtrickySimilar words: willwiltwilewildswillwillingwildlifebewilderMeaning: ['waɪlɪ]  adj. marked by skill in deception. 
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1. He's a cunning/sly/wily old fox.
2. Foxes are supposed to be wily creatures.
3. His wily plan recoiled on him.
4. He was outwitted by his wily opponent.
5. The boss is a wily old fox.
6. His wily plan rebounded on him.
7. What was cried up by the wily merchant often turned out to be most unworthy of praise.
8. He's a wily old fox.
9. It had grown old and wily.
10. All these benefits were acquired by a wily diplomacy.
11. Even then his response was wily.
12. What would some wily girl see in him that he would respond to?
13. That wily old fellow Javed Miandad came out of it all with a commendation for trying to calm his prayers.
14. The idea of the touring professional as wily entrepreneur was nearly dead.
15. The Ingushetians have been more patient and wily than their hotheaded Chechen neighbors.
16. But Rose knew that wily Grandpa had quietly saved enough cloth to make a few high quality, black market clothes.
17. But Berg is a wily writer who has no trouble whipping up something sweet and satisfying from this unpromising set of circumstances.sentencedict.com/wily.html
18. Daedalus himself, the wily artisan who wrought the whole thing, could find no means to pierce its mystery from within.
19. The Fawcett brothers were too wily to be caught, and the local residents could get no help from the law.
20. But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
21. The customer was sucked in By the wily Businessman.
22. The oiler was a wily surfman.
23. They became more experienced and wily.
24. Jane is a wily old bird.
25. His appointment as prime minister owed much to the wily manoeuvring of the President.
26. Drug revelations aside, the claims of exuberant youth versus wily experience will be a central issue.
27. There is Achilles, the fearless hothead; the courageous and disciplined Hector; and the wily, imaginative Odysseus.
28. The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning.
29. Breen had a reputation for being a tough and wily negotiator.
30. But the incidents and the relationships developed along the way give it a wily balance of farce and sentiment.
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