wiliness
Example Sentences
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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
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
On “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd asked the candidate about his wiliness to substantiate odds claims with bogus proof.
From MSNBC ● May 4, 2016
He displayed exceptional wiliness Saturday in using his 6-foot-8, 205-pound frame to receive the ball in the low post and back his defender down.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2016
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
