Dictionary entry

Wilier

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Myanmar Meaning

(Adj[com]) wily

Definition

wily /'waÇli/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ဉာဏ္မ်ားေသာ။ စဥ္းလဲေသာ။ နပ္ေသာ။ as wily as a fox ❍ a wily and potentially dangerous politician.

Examples

  1. ‘The scene is now set for a series of double-crosses where the wily Carol emerges as the sharpest operator of them all.’
  2. ‘But that would be a crass sort of opinion to attribute to a wily man like Pilate.’
  3. ‘I'm no technician
  4. but a wily old trader once told me to ignore the news and trust the charts.’
  5. ‘It caused uproar at the time
  6. but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile
  7. puffing on that metaphorical cigar.’
  8. ‘He's like that wily friend who's always getting you into trouble but whom you can't help but forgive.’
  9. ‘I had no idea such cunning and wily interrogation techniques were still permitted in the Western world.’
  10. ‘Completing the family portrait are his ever-compliant wife and wily old dad.’
  11. ‘Cunning eyes
  12. wily grins
  13. pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.’
  14. ‘His vulnerability
  15. his emotions are those of the wily and ingenuous country lawyer.’
  16. ‘But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole.’
  17. ‘He seems less the wily fighting fox and more the cornered stag.’
  18. ‘In verity
  19. the foreign debt issue has already put Zambia on a wild economic frontier in this wily world.’
  20. ‘He had made one mistake
  21. he had not counted on the skill and determination of his wily opponent.’
  22. ‘The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation
  23. which ran late into the night.’
  24. ‘He has been a wily politician and he knows that the land issue is an over-simplification.’
  25. ‘As a wily guerilla leader and resistance fighter
  26. he deserves respect.’
  27. ‘But scientists are finding that the wily creatures can stop cancer in its tracks.’
  28. ‘Even the wily street vendors are offering their goods at genuine bargain prices.’
  29. ‘Others fought over what fell
  30. scampering across the yard playing wily comedies of keep-away.’
  31. ‘As it turns out
  32. uneducated village communists are no match for wily bourgeois sneakiness.’