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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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Sporting a bushy salt-and-pepper beard and a world-weary look in his eyes, Pearce finds dimensions both tragic and devious in what could have been merely the stock character of the wily long-term inmate whose isolation has cost him his humanity.
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
From Congress to prison Weiner, a brash and ambitious politician whose New York accent and wily, kinetic style made for solid theater on the House floor, was once someone worth watching in the Democratic Party.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
There was no quintessential American, so Twain imagined him: a wily rube, cynical toward the same refinements of Europe that inspired awe in him.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
But its wily leader, Kim Jong-un, found a solution to his country’s decades-old problem.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2025
From Congress to prison Weiner, a brash and ambitious politician whose New York accent and wily, kinetic style made for solid theater on the House floor, was once someone worth watching in the Democratic Party.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
There was no quintessential American, so Twain imagined him: a wily rube, cynical toward the same refinements of Europe that inspired awe in him.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
But its wily leader, Kim Jong-un, found a solution to his country’s decades-old problem.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 31 May 2025
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“Wily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wily. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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