WILY
ADJECTIVES
1000 ► YEPE cunning, crafty, sly, wily → obs.
1225 ► CRAFTLY cunningly; craftily; in a devious, wily, or shrewd manner → obs.
1357 ► SUBTLE crafty, cunning; treacherously or wickedly cunning; insidiously sly, wily → obs.
1380 ► CAUTELOUS deceitful, crafty, sly, cunning, artful, wily → obs.
1656 ► VETERATORIAN crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, sly, deceitful; gotten by long use, experienced → obs.
1660 ► VERSUTIOUS cunning, crafty, wily → obs.
1662 ► CANNY cunning, artful, wily → Sc. obs.
1721 ► VULPINARY crafty, wily, artful, cunning, sly → obs.
1806 ► QUIRKIE → QUIRKY cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky → Sc.
1808 ► SANSHACH wily, crafty; shrewd; sarcastically clever → Sc.
1896 ► QUIRKSOME cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky → Sc.
NOUNS
1375 ► SUBTLETY a wily stratagem or trick, something craftily invented; a crafty or cunning device, an artifice → obs.
1869 ► CANNAT → KANNAT a sharp, wily fellow; a peddler, a dealer → Ireland
NOUNS, PERSON
..E16 ► GREEK a cunning or wily person; a cheat; a card sharper→ arch.
1558 ► THE CRAFTY people who are cunning, deceitful, or wily considered as a class
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