wily
/ˈwaɪ.li/ adjectif C2En français : rusé, perfide, fourbe
- Sly, cunning, full of tricks. · Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.
Comparatif wilier · Superlatif wiliest
Dans la bibliothèque
A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded.
But he was too wily for that.
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.
Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
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