wiliness
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Anne Heche was brilliantly unnerving and funny onscreen, with intelligence and wiliness that served her in playing competent women in extreme situations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 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
On “Meet the Press,” NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Trump about his wiliness to substantiate odd claims with bogus proof.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 24, 2018
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
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