wiliness
Example Sentences
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Instead, she was brilliantly unnerving and frequently very funny, her angular face a disarming mix of intelligence and wiliness that made her the perfect choice to play competent women in extreme situations.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022
Instead Arsenal attacked United with a wiliness in the clinches, the full-backs working furiously, the midfield ferreting hard.
From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2019
To her credit, Andrews doesn’t turn Kate’s wiliness into outright villainy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2017
They combined their experience and wiliness to solve a murder that had remained a mystery in a 1973 episode of “Mannix.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017
It was largely because of his habit of marching troops all over the Shenandoah Valley in an illogical and inexplicable fashion that Jackson earned a reputation among bewildered enemy officers for wiliness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
