Wily GRE Vocabulary Flashcard
/ˈwaɪ.li/ (adj)
clever and deceitful in getting what you want, crafty in deceiving people, cunning, sly, guileful, devious, shrewd, sneaky, astute, scheming, artful, tricky
Compare Dahl’s portrayal of the fox, a noble and sympathetic creature, with another: licking his lips, eyes narrowed and thickly kohled beneath comic, angry eyebrows, often surrounded by a cloud of feathers, the fox is unequivocally dangerous, but also clever and wily.
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Antonym: ingenuous
Noun: wiliness
Adverb: wilily
