wily

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)

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

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:wily

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)
Greek: πανούργος (el) m (panoúrgos), πονηρός (el) m (ponirós)
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)
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)
Swedish: lömsk (sv), slug (sv), illistig (sv)

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