Crossword clues for wiliest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wily \Wil"y\, a. [Compar. Wilier; superl. Wiliest.] [From
Wile.]
Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or
stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful;
subtle. ``Wily and wise.''
--Chaucer. ``The wily snake.''
--Milton.
This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.
--South.
Syn: Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See Cunning.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativewily)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "wiliest".
On the morrow he would have to ride to the northernmost reaches of Nether, to seek out the hold of Prince Volvn, his best general and the wiliest strategist in the realm.
Dark forest, was one of the guards, the oldest and wiliest of them, gaze sweeping the area without mercy, his drawn sword silver in his hand.
Natti was on the downslope of life, now, and that fact alone was enough to support his reputation as the wiliest and most effective death contractor in the business.
They had just lost their most vicious negotiator, my oldest and wiliest enemy in this business, who had toppled off a rusty catwalk into an intake pond, been sucked into a big pipe, shredded into easily digestible bits by rotating knives and processed into toxic sludge.
Indeed, I would even venture that he was the wiliest monarch any Roman emperor had ever faced.
Williams was especially anxious to capture alive an okapi, one of the wiliest of African creatures, and Ki-Gor, Tembu George and Helene had agreed to lend a hand in the difficult task.
Dark 1 est, was one of the guards, the oldest and wiliest of them, gaze sweeping the area without mercy, his drawn sword i silver in his hand.
If your esteemed oncle was a contributor to the Corsican, he was the wiliest one in England.
The Strike Leader nodded, raised a hand and gestured, Vashemi and Tarku, the most senior Patrol Leader and the wiliest old veteran without rank, respectively, half-stood and started back down the trail, checking to the rear as he went forward.
The wiliest of females gained but a brief hour of mindless copulation and were promptly forgotten evermore.
Pretoria was so well guarded that it was almost impossible for the wiliest of spies to pass through the sentries unobserved, but, after much cautious inspection, one single unguarded spot had been found, the drift of the Aapies River, over which the S.
It is extraordinary that historians have mistaken one of the wiliest schemes of the great queen for uncertainty and hesitation!
For there, under a log, lurks the wiliest trout I have ever encountered.