wily

wily

See also: wiły

English

Etymology

From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly; equivalent to wile +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /waɪ.liː/

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• Rhymes: -aɪli

Adjective

wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)

1. sly, cunning, full of tricks

   Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• wilily
• wiliness

Translations

sly, cunning

Chinese: Mandarin: 狡猾 (zh) (jiǎohuá) Czech: prohnaný Danish: snu (da) Dutch: gewiekst (nl), snood (nl) Finnish: ovela (fi), viekas (fi), juonikas (fi), kiero (fi), luihu (fi), kavala (fi) French: rusé (fr), perfide (fr), fourbe (fr) Galician: astuto (gl) m German: schlau (de), listig (de), gerissen (de) Greek: πανούργος (el) m (panoúrgos), πονηρός (el) m (ponirós) Ancient Greek: κίδαφος (kídaphos) Hungarian: ravasz (hu)

Italian: furbo (it), sornione (it) m, subdolo (it) Japanese: 狡猾な (ja) (こうかつな, kōkatsu-na), 狡い (ずるい, zurui) Korean: 교활한 (ko) (gyohwal-han) Latin: versūtus, dolōsus Maori: hangahangarau Occitan: ganèl, fals (oc), enganaire (oc) Portuguese: ladino (pt), matreiro (pt), finório (pt) Russian: хи́трый (ru) (xítryj) Scottish Gaelic: seòlta Slovak: prefíkaný (sk) Spanish: astuto (es), listo (es), pillo (es) Swedish: lömsk (sv), slug (sv), illistig (sv)