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She turned out to be a wily negotiator.
a wily judge of character, she takes advantage of car buyers' insecurities to sell them a bigger machine than they really need
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The outlandish schemes of these wily characters have never failed to attract public attention.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Rather, the hackers Smart and colleagues traced to an IP address in this city have been using the wily method his team uncovered to pilfer millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency.
—Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Colleen in the service of good was wilier than the friends of secrecy and found a way to thwart their plan.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
And are a lot of us eager to see Sabalenka try to add a big trophy to the new hardware on her ring finger—against, perhaps, Gauff, who at her best can blunt Sabalenka’s nuclear groundstrokes with her steady perseverance and wily strategy?
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Rather, the hackers Smart and colleagues traced to an IP address in this city have been using the wily method his team uncovered to pilfer millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency.
—Jessica Klein, PC Magazine, 28 Mar. 2026
Colleen in the service of good was wilier than the friends of secrecy and found a way to thwart their plan.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
And are a lot of us eager to see Sabalenka try to add a big trophy to the new hardware on her ring finger—against, perhaps, Gauff, who at her best can blunt Sabalenka’s nuclear groundstrokes with her steady perseverance and wily strategy?
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for wily
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“Wily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wily. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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