wily
Adjective Satellite
- marked by skill in deception
- "a wily old attorney"
Adj
- Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
Adjective
- Full of wiles; crafty or cunning.
Examples
- Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
- The wily Scrabble player always saved her blank for a critical seven-letter word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly. By surface analysis, wil(e) + -y.
Synonyms
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, artful, astute, cautelous, foxlike, frood, shrewd, slim, subtle, vulpine, wily
Scrabble Score: 10
wily: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwily: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wily: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary