wilier

Example Sentences

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Factories are now able to supply better quality masks to meet the challenge of wilier new variants, but the communal work continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023

I hadn’t heard any of the songs which, people said, were wilier and more mischievous than the straighter, soapier, we’re-in-love-now ballads that defined Disney movies past.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2019

But Skeets’s poetry is wilier, more harrowing than that.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019

True, historically, British boors have shared little kinship with their American cousins; ours has been a wilier boorishness, obscured by a miasma of supercilious, ironic detachment.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2019

So far, the fish had proved wilier than they’d imagined.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray