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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In 1974, Foreman faced an aging but wily Muhammad Ali in the fight famously known as the Rumble in the Jungle.
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, a wily wisecracker who suddenly becomes installed as the leader of a tiny and very broke nation, Freedonia.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
For now, this Ghosts doesn’t actively shake us so much as remind us that, in its wily old bones, that capacity to rattle still remains.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
This hack pathway can be blocked, until the wily Lazarus Project guys find another.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, a wily wisecracker who suddenly becomes installed as the leader of a tiny and very broke nation, Freedonia.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
For now, this Ghosts doesn’t actively shake us so much as remind us that, in its wily old bones, that capacity to rattle still remains.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
This hack pathway can be blocked, until the wily Lazarus Project guys find another.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 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 26 Mar. 2025.
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