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wily
Example Sentences
The plot basically sticks to the first seven chapters of the 100-chapter novel, which concerns an engagingly impulsive monkey who obtains superpowers and, to protect his monkey community, enjoys one wily adventure after another.
He has survived multiple damaging scandals and found his way back to power every time, like a wily Renaissance courtier or an unkillable horror-movie villain, and may well survive this one.
A wily politician, Enrile never spent a day behind bars for his role in the Marcos dictatorship despite its human rights abuses.
The wiliest or greediest adult children have their eye on the main prize: real estate.
Nationalism and xenophobia: There are endless proclamations of national superiority and hatred of foreigners; yet despite this claimed superiority, wily foreigners are always seen to be getting the better of the national community.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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