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wiliness

noun as in art

noun as in artfulness

noun as in artifice

noun as in craftiness

noun as in slyness

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Example Sentences

But the FDA underestimated the wiliness of the pharmaceutical industry, which invented a new art form: finding ways to make their wares seem like joyous must-have treatments, while often minimizing lackluster efficacy and risks.

From Salon

“For people with a certain amount of wiliness, they’ll understand the U.S. criminal justice system isn’t going to touch them,” he said.

Anne Heche was brilliantly unnerving and funny onscreen, with intelligence and wiliness that served her in playing competent women in extreme situations.

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.

Instead, it’s a chronicle of wiliness in defeat and the unlikely escape of a shrinking ragtag volunteer army from military professionals who vastly outnumbered them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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