wily

English

Etymology

From wile (“ruse, trick”) + -y

Pronunciation

• IPA: /waɪ.liː/, 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.

Translations

sly, cunning

Chinese: 狡猾 (jiao3.hua2) 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) Greek: πανούργος (el) (panurgos) m., πονηρός (el) (poniros) m.

Italian: furbo (it), sornione (it) m., subdolo (it) Korean: 교활한 (gyo.hwal.han) Russian: хитрый (ru) (hitryĭ) Scottish Gaelic: seòlta (gd) Slovak: prefíkaný  (sk) Swedish: lömsk (sv)