wily
Valid in Scrabble
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- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
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/ˈwaɪ.li/
Definition of wily
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
“Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.”
“Of all the medical monsters Peter Hotez could have set out to slay, the Yale University researcher could not have chosen a more wily and obscure villain than the hookworm.”
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Etymology
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
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