Use wily in a sentence
Sentences containing wily two or more times
- There you have the wily Boeotain and the wily Jim Smiley waiting--two thousand years apart--and waiting, each equipped with his frog and 'laying' for the stranger. [5]
More example sentences with the word wily in them
- I don't know what she may have said to Mr. Meigs," this wily woman added, in the most natural manner. [4]
- It was on the eve of this epoch-making trip of which we heard so glowing an account to-night, and I made up my mind that no Spaniard, however wily, could resist his persuasion. [9]
- For whether the great scholar who is stuffed with knowledge is happier than the great money-getter who is gorged with riches, or the wily politician who is a Warwick in his realm, depends entirely upon what sort of a man this pursuit has made him. [4]
- They were both doubtless wily as highly civilized people are apt to be; the "serpent of old Nile" was in them both. [4]
- Any one will divine that nice work is necessary here, cautious work, wily work, and that there is entertainment to be had in watching the magician do it. [5]
- There seemed to be two models in the Board, the smart and neat, and the hayseed style adopted by some of the most wily old operators, who posed as honest dealers who retained their rural simplicity. [4]
- None so quick as he to detect a simulated interest, or a wily effort to make him ridiculous; and few tried this a second time, for he had a rapier-like gift of repartee that transfixed the offender like a moth on a pin. [9]
- These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass. [5]
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