wily

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++wil·y /ˈwaɪli/ adjective  INTELLIGENTclever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people 诡计多端的；狡诈的 SYN cunning a wily politician 狡猾的政客 —wiliness noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

wily• Even then his response was wily.• It had grown old and wily.• a wily businessman• The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning.• All these benefits were acquired by a wily diplomacy.• The idea of the touring professional as wily entrepreneur was nearly dead.• But Rose knew that wily Grandpa had quietly saved enough cloth to make a few high quality, black market clothes.• There is Achilles, the fearless hothead; the courageous and disciplined Hector; and the wily, imaginative Odysseus.• Breen had a reputation for being a tough and wily negotiator.• The Ingushetians have been more patient and wily than their hotheaded Chechen neighbors.• The Fawcett brothers were too wily to be caught, and the local residents could get no help from the law.Origin wily (1200-1300) wile; → WILES

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wily
wil‧y /ˈwaɪli/ adjectiveclever at getting what you want, especially by tricking people
   SYN  cunning:
    a wily politician
—wiliness noun [uncountable]

wilyBrE /ˈwaɪli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwaɪli/ 🔊 adjective (wili·er, wili·est) clever at getting what you want, and willing to trick people 狡猾的；诡计多端的；爱捉弄人的 SYN cunning ◆The boss is a wily old fox. 老板是个狡猾的老狐狸。🔊🔊