adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wise/wily/funny/weird etc old bird
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I hadn't noticed what a weird old bird Ned was, either.
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Just so. Funny old bird .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wily businessman
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Breen had a reputation for being a tough and wily negotiator.
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The Fawcett brothers were too wily to be caught, and the local residents could get no help from the law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All these benefits were acquired by a wily diplomacy.
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But Rose knew that wily Grandpa had quietly saved enough cloth to make a few high quality, black market clothes.
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Even then his response was wily .
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It had grown old and wily .
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The archetypal survivor is the trickster, and his strategy is wily cunning.
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The idea of the touring professional as wily entrepreneur was nearly dead.
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The Ingushetians have been more patient and wily than their hotheaded Chechen neighbors.
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There is Achilles, the fearless hothead; the courageous and disciplined Hector; and the wily , imaginative Odysseus.