wily
adj/ˈwaɪ.li/
Etymology
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
- inherited from wily
Definitions
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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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for wily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA