Wily

a.

1.

Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle. This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind. - South.

Adj.

1.

wily - marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney" Synonyms: foxy, guileful, knavish, crafty, sly, tricksy, cunning, dodgy, tricky, slick

Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious, diplomatic, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, sagacious, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, vulpine, wary

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