wilier

Example Sentences

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As the wilier, more calculating of two friends seeking their fortune in the Old West, Orion Lee complements Magaro beautifully in “First Cow,” to the point where he almost qualifies as a lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

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

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019

This had become the norm: with declining media coverage and wilier evasions by the police, the dead tended to disappear.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2019

Cuban is older than me and — by almost any objective standard — wiser, wealthier and wilier.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2016

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

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray