- comparative of wily.
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
He proves wilier than the hunter and retains fearsome strength and speed, despite his age.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022
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
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
