Crossword-Solution: WILY 4 letters, 89 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Wily superl. Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or
stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

We have 89 clues for the answer “WILY”

Clue Answers
Possessing guile 1 answer
Sly as a fox 1 answer
Prone to deceive 1 answer
Pretty tricky 1 answer
Like a slyboots 1 answer
Like a coyote 1 answer
Good at scheming 1 answer
Expert with craft 1 answer
Crafty, clever 1 answer
Skillfully deceptive 2 answers
Artfully clever 2 answers
Full of trickery 2 answers
Full of tricks 2 answers
Skilled at deception 2 answers
Skilled at trickery 2 answers
Hard to outwit 2 answers
Full of guile. 5 answers
Fox-like 8 answers
Like a fox 9 answers
Vulpine 9 answers
A SLICK COMMERCIAL 10 answers
BALD-PATED, SHORT, OLD CUCKOO'S A CRAFTY THING 10 answers
A SHAMELESS IMPUDENT SCHEMING WOMAN 10 answers
BEAT WITH CUNNING 10 answers
BIT OF CUNNING 10 answers
CUNNING BIT OF 10 answers
A SCHEMING WIFE 11 answers
CRAZY LIKE A FOX 11 answers
CUNNING AND SLY 11 answers
ARTFUL DECEPTION 11 answers
A SCHEMING PERSON 11 answers
entrapping 13 answers
CUNNING ONE 14 answers
unsentimental 15 answers
Double-dealing 16 answers
praetorian 17 answers
unexcitable 18 answers
Machiavellian 19 answers
corrupting 20 answers
unromantic 26 answers
Venal 37 answers
unsympathetic 40 answers
sneaking 43 answers
Conniving 44 answers
Sneaky 45 answers
Duplicitous 45 answers
Unethical 46 answers
Stealthy? 48 answers
scheming 49 answers
disingenuous 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WILY (5)

The Cuckoo's Egg First in an article entitled "Stalking the Wily Hacker," and later in the book The Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll detailed his experiences trying to track down someone breaking into a system at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California.
Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992
The man spoke truly; he might unwittingly, in sheer terror, utter the shriek that might prove a warning to the wily Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Yet although, in combating his friend’s better feelings, he possessed all the advantage which a wily, composed, selfish disposition has over a man agitated by strong and contending passions, it required all Malvoisin’s art to keep Bois-Guilbert steady to the purpose he had prevailed on him to adopt.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Several times the ape-man approached the subject from different angles, but never was he successful in surprising the wily cannibal into a direct contradiction of his original statement that there had been no women or children with the party.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
This time Tarzan saw the pock-marked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paulvitch of former days.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with WILY (3)

Srinagar is a medieval city dying in a modern war. It is empty streets, locked shops, angry soldiers and boys with stones. It is several thousand military bunkers, four golf courses, and three book-shops. It is wily politicians repeating their lies about war and peace to television cameras and small crowds gathered by the promise of an elusive job or a daily fee of a few hundred rupees. It is stopping at sidewalks and traffic lights when the convoys of rulers and their patron…
Basharat Peer Curfewed Night
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
Craig Ferguson
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 94 times in crossword archives (1972–2024).