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wily

/ˈwaɪ.li/ adjetivo C2

En español: astuto, listo, pillo

  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks. · Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

Comparativo wilier · Superlativo wiliest

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A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 32 · B2
But he was too wily for that.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 107 · B2
So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 45 · C1
Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 185 · C1

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