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1. (adj.) wily
full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
Etymology: (1250–1300)
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1. (adj) crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
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1. wily
full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle
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Sense: crafty, cunning, sly etc
a wily old fox; He is too wily for the police to catch him.
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 Afrikaans: geslepe |
 Arabic: ماكِر، مُراوِغ |
 Bulgarian: хитър |
 Brazilian: manhoso |
 Czech: lstivý |
 German: gerissen |
 Danish: snu |
 Greek: πονηρός, πανούργος |
 Spanish: astuto |
 Estonian: kaval |
 Farsi: پر حيله |
 Finnish: viekas |
 French: rusé |
 Hebrew: עַרמוּמִי |
 Hindi: धूर्त |
 Croatian: lukav |
 Hungarian: ravasz |
 Indonesian: licik |
 Icelandic: slægur, slunginn |
 Italian: astuto, furbo |
 Japanese: ずるい |
 Korean: 교활한 |
 Lithuanian: gudrus, suktas |
 Latvian: viltīgs; blēdīgs |
 Malay: licik |
 Dutch: sluw |
 Norwegian: slu, lur, utspekulert |
 Polish: przebiegły |
 Persian: پر حيله |
 Pashto: ټګ، ټګ برګ، دوكمار، غولون |
 Portuguese: manhoso |
 Romanian: viclean |
 Russian: хитрый |
 Slovak: prefíkaný |
 Slovenian: zvit |
 Serbian: lukav |
 Swedish: illistig, knipslug, försl |
 Thai: เต็มไปด้วยเล่ห์ |
 Turkish: kurnaz, cin fikirli,şeyta |
 Taiwanese: 狡猾的 |
 Ukrainian: хитрий, лукавий |
 Urdu: چالاک |
 Vietnamese: xảo trá |
 Chinese: 狡猾的 |
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