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wiliness Definition


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wilier
wiliest
wiliness wily




wily
adj
    wilier, wiliest
    1. Cunning; crafty or devious.
      Thesaurus: sly, shrewd, scheming, guileful, deceitful, cunning, deep, foxy, shifty, cagey, crafty, Machiavellian, deceptive, tricky; Antonym: guileless.
Derivative: wiliness
noun
    Etymology: 13c: from wile.



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