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wily

wily

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See also: wiły

English

Etymology

From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly; equivalent to wile +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪ.li/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪli
Homophones: Wiley, Wylie, Wylye
Hyphenation: wi‧ly

Adjective

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

Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wily

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

Derived terms

Translations

sly, cunning

Bulgarian: хитър (bg) (hitǎr), лукав (bg) (lukav)
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)
Ancient: κίδαφος (kídaphos)
Hungarian: ravasz (hu)
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)
Latin: vafer, versūtus, dolōsus
Maori: hangahangarau
Occitan: ganèl, fals (oc), enganaire (oc)
Ottoman Turkish: قورناز (kurnaz), آصمق (asmak)
Plautdietsch: schlau
Polish: chytry (pl), przebiegły (pl), sprytny (pl)
Portuguese: ladino (pt), matreiro (pt), finório (pt)
Russian: хи́трый (ru) (xítryj), лука́вый (ru) (lukávyj), проны́рливый (ru) (pronýrlivyj), изворо́тливый (ru) (izvorótlivyj)
Scottish Gaelic: seòlta
Slovak: prefíkaný (sk)
Spanish: astuto (es), listo (es), pillo (es)
Swedish: lömsk (sv), slug (sv), illistig (sv)

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