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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Wiliest

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Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

“Wily and wise.”

Chaucer.

“The wily snake.”

Milton.

This false,

wily

, doubling disposition of mind.

South.

Syn. – Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See

Adj.

[from wile.] Cunning; sly; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; subtle; as a wily adversary.