sly, cunning, crafty, wily, tricky, foxy, artful, slick mean attaining or seeking to attain one's ends by guileful or devious means. sly implies furtiveness, lack of candor, and skill in concealing one's …

WILY definition: full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning. See examples of wily used in a sentence.

Wise and sensible (Definition of wily from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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wily adjective cunning, designing, scheming, sharp, intriguing, arch, tricky, crooked, shrewd, sly, astute, deceptive, crafty, artful, shifty, foxy, cagey (informal), deceitful, underhand, guileful, fly …

Definition of wily adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Wily definition: Full of wiles; cunning.

If you describe someone or their behaviour as wily, you mean that they are clever at achieving what they want, especially by tricking people. This is a wily politician.

wily / ˈ waɪli/ adjective wilier; wiliest Britannica Dictionary definition of WILY [also more wily; most wily] : full of clever tricks : very clever

How can you remember the meaning of the adjective wily? Just think about the old Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons. Their aptly named cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote, got his …