wily

Quantum particles, it turns out, are just as wily as Odysseus, as we have shown in an experiment published in Physical Review Letters.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Mr. Motoki draws a persuasive portrait of authority under pressure yet uninhibited by convention, and Mr. Suda, the star of “Cloud,” gives a performance of bitter and wily intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

To play the wily Kanbei, Kurosawa enlisted his young “Cloud” star Suda, whom he calls a genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

For Neill, it was the passion for complex, wily characters, and how those types of people reacted in situations that were equally complicated.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

I appreciated his wily maneuvering on the Net, his bizarre sense of humor, his oddly defiant view of his world, his striking intelligence and lust for ideas.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

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

Schmeichel came flying out in his trademark intimidatory pose, arms outstretched and his legs wide, but he was up against a wilier opponent than usual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012

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

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

In Iran, the president faces some of his wiliest and most implacable opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

The wiliest or greediest adult children have their eye on the main prize: real estate.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

Until the events of last Friday, Mr Rutte was seen as one of the wiliest survivors in European politics, even earning the nickname of "Teflon Mark".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Porzingis, the wiliest on the team at drawing fouls, got to the free throw line with 4:40 to play and his team down seven.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau