wily

English

Etymology

From wile (“ruse, trick”) + -y

Pronunciation

• IPA: /waɪ.liː/, X-SAMPA: /waI.li:/

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  Rhymes: -aɪli

Adjective

wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)

1. sly, cunning, full of tricks

   Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:wily

Translations

sly, cunning

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狡猾 (cmn) (jiǎohuá)

• Czech: prohnaný (cs)
• Danish: snu (da)
• Dutch: gewiekst (nl), snood (nl)
• Finnish: ovela (fi), viekas (fi), juonikas (fi), kiero (fi), luihu (fi), kavala (fi)
• French: rusé (fr), perfide (fr)
• German: schlau (de)

• Greek: πανούργος (el) (panurgos) m, πονηρός (el) (poniros) m
• Italian: furbo (it), sornione (it) m, subdolo (it)
• Japanese: 狡猾な (ja) (こうかつな, kōkatsu-na), 狡い (ja) (ずるい, zurui)
• Korean: 교활한 (ko) (gyohwal-han)
• Russian: хитрый (ru) (xítryj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòlta (gd)
• Slovak: prefíkaný (sk)
• Swedish: lömsk (sv)