Vocabulary Word
Word: wily
Definition: crafty; cunning; artful; N. wile: deceitful stratagem
Definition: crafty; cunning; artful; N. wile: deceitful stratagem
Sentences Containing 'wily'
Certainly a call to the visitors'room had scarcely astonished Andrea less than themselves, for the wily youth, instead of making use of his privilege of waiting to be claimed on his entry into La Force, had maintained a rigid silence.
A thousand thoughts at once suggested themselves to him on the subject of this new adventure, and it struck him as being ill done and worse advised in him to expose himself to the danger of breaking his plighted faith to his lady; and said he to himself, "Who knows but that the devil, being wily and cunning, may be trying now to entrap me with a duenna, having failed with empresses, queens, duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses?
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