WILY in a Sentence

Learn WILY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

11 example sentences for WILY, such as:

1. She is as wily as a fox in avoiding trouble.
2. In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils.
3. I, too, am wily and I think his mind in a little while.
4. Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
5. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

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wily
 a.  cunning; full of tricks; skill in deception
Classic Sentence:
1  Why, good Sir Maurice," rejoined the wily politician, "start not aside like a scared steed, without, at least, considering the object of your terror.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Ay, but thou forgettest," said the wily adviser, "thou wilt have neither leisure nor opportunity to execute this mad project.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  So wily was he that he had not trusted himself upon foot, but he had availed himself of a cab so that he could loiter behind or dash past them and so escape their notice.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
5  Even now we have no clear case against this very wily man.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
6  These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  I, too, am wily and I think his mind in a little while.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  The Cytherean gave ready assent to her request, and laughed at the wily invention.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
9  I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  She is as wily as a fox in avoiding trouble.
2  Fortunately, Batman saw through the wily machination of the Riddler and saved Gotham City from destruction by the forces of evil.