Examples of wily in a Sentence
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 semicolon is a wily punctuation mark.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Redford played the wily outlaw opposite Newman in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a box-office smash from which Redford's Sundance Institute and festival got its name.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
And the trickster god Elegba, Orisha of the crossroads, stands between them, a wily ex-con buddy of Oshoosi’s — not bad, not good, a Mephistophelean drifter who secretly longs for the fraternal intimacy that is his friend’s by birthright.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Potential trouble arises when the wily victim of Danny’s, Pauline, starts snooping around the house, hears Danny’s voice and starts to bargain for her silence.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Redford played the wily outlaw opposite Newman in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a box-office smash from which Redford's Sundance Institute and festival got its name.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
And the trickster god Elegba, Orisha of the crossroads, stands between them, a wily ex-con buddy of Oshoosi’s — not bad, not good, a Mephistophelean drifter who secretly longs for the fraternal intimacy that is his friend’s by birthright.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Potential trouble arises when the wily victim of Danny’s, Pauline, starts snooping around the house, hears Danny’s voice and starts to bargain for her silence.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
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 23 Sep. 2025.
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