English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly, equivalent to wile + -y.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)
- sly, cunning, full of tricks
- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
sly, cunning
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 狡猾 (zh) (jiǎohuá)
- Czech: prohnaný
- 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), fourbe (fr)
- Galician: astuto (gl) m
- German: schlau (de), listig (de), gerissen (de)
- Greek: πανούργος (el) m (panoúrgos), πονηρός (el) m (ponirós)
- Hungarian: ravasz (hu)
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- Italian: furbo (it), sornione (it) m, subdolo (it)
- Japanese: 狡猾な (ja) (こうかつな, kōkatsu-na), 狡い (ずるい, zurui)
- Korean: 교활한 (ko) (gyohwal-han)
- Latin: dolōsus
- Maori: hangahangarau
- Occitan: ganèl, fals (oc), enganaire (oc)
- Portuguese: ladino (pt), matreiro (pt), finório (pt)
- Russian: хи́трый (ru) (xítryj)
- Scottish Gaelic: seòlta
- Slovak: prefíkaný (sk)
- Spanish: astuto (es), listo (es), pillo (es)
- Swedish: lömsk (sv), slug (sv), illistig (sv)
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