0 (of a person) intelligent, having a very good understanding of situations, possibilities, and people, and often willing to use tricks to achieve an aim:
a wily politician
1 quick to think of things, having a very good understanding of situations and possibilities, and often willing to use tricks to achieve an aim:
a wily hunter
In this connection, surviving accounts demonstrate a wily adeptness at manipulation of the press and police.
It takes a wily philosopher to avoid this trap.
The recruiters needed to be both tough and wily to do their business.
Occupying center stage through most of the book are the urban notables, a small clique of wily and resilient families who stood at the summit of local society.
The wily fox will not go into a bit of wire sticking out on the open hillside.
Prosecutors get a very bad press these days, but in the main they are wily people.
Do we wily consider the emigration of the very best class of labourer or artisan?
He is a most interesting bird, however; a most vigilant, wily fellow, and he deserves a great deal more attention than he is receiving.
