Definition for Wily:

• Using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; cunning; sly; subtile.

Synonyms for Wily:

• adj.

  •Machiavellian (adjective)
  • most opportunist,
  • more opportunist.
  •arch (adjective)
  • playful,
  • mischievous.
  •artful (adjective)
  • re-sourceful,
  • re sourceful,
  • slick.
  •calculating (adjective)
  • manipulative,
  • gingerly,
  • safest,
  • more intelligent,
  • SAFER.
  •crafty (adjective)
  • most streetwise,
  • more streetwise.
  •crafty, clever (adjective)
  • deceptive,
  • crooked,
  • astute,
  • greasy,
  • sharp,
  • smooth,
  • intriguing,
  • slippery,
  • crazy like a fox,
  • knowing,
  • foxy,
  • sagacious.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • masterly,
  • ingenious,
  • canny,
  • fancy footwork,
  • snaky,
  • deft,
  • witty,
  • skillful,
  • feline,
  • clever,
  • masterful,
  • quick,
  • sly boots,
  • wary.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • most deceiving,
  • more astucious,
  • hypo-critical,
  • un-truthful,
  • most feline,
  • more impostrous,
  • mis leading,
  • more rascal,
  • most rascal,
  • in direct,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un truthful,
  • most impostrous,
  • more beguiling,
  • more feline,
  • most illusory,
  • two faced,
  • most astucious,
  • hypo critical,
  • more deceiving,
  • twofaced,
  • in-direct,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • mis-leading,
  • most beguiling,
  • mendacious.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • Imposturous,
  • snide,
  • seeming.
  •deep (adjective)
  • most plotting,
  • more plotting.
  •designing (adjective)
  • de-signing,
  • more conspiring,
  • more conniving,
  • de signing,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • un scrupulous,
  • most conniving,
  • most conspiring.
  •devious (adjective)
  • faking out,
  • shady,
  • insincere,
  • in sincerer,
  • in-sincerest,
  • most obliquitous,
  • in sincerest,
  • more obliquitous,
  • playing politics,
  • in-sincere,
  • in sincere,
  • in-sincerer.
  •diplomatic (adjective)
  • most opportunistic,
  • most capable,
  • more opportunistic.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • perfidious.
  •disingenuous (adjective)
  • Uncandid,
  • unfrank.
  •double-dealing (adjective)
  • double-dealing,
  • lefthanded,
  • doubledealing,
  • left handed.
  •foxy (adjective)
  • most retiary,
  • more retiary.
  •furtive (adjective)
  • masked,
  • most under the table,
  • most conspiratorial,
  • hushhush,
  • dis guised,
  • more slinking,
  • most slinking,
  • more sub rosa,
  • under cover,
  • most sub rosa,
  • more conspiratorial,
  • most subrosa,
  • more sub-rosa,
  • under wraps,
  • more skulking,
  • more subrosa,
  • most sub-rosa,
  • more under the table,
  • dis-guised,
  • hush hush,
  • most under-the-table,
  • most skulking,
  • subrosa,
  • under-cover,
  • more under-the-table.
  •serpentine (adjective)
  • mazier,
  • more twisting,
  • Meandrous,
  • more snakelike,
  • most coiling,
  • most twisting,
  • twisting turning,
  • most snakelike,
  • maziest,
  • more coiling.
  •shifty (adjective)
  • more equivocating,
  • un-honest,
  • most shuffling,
  • Unhonest,
  • fly by night,
  • most prevaricative,
  • more prevaricatory,
  • more dodging,
  • most prevaricatory,
  • more shuffling,
  • most unhonest,
  • most dodging,
  • un honest,
  • more unhonest,
  • most equivocating,
  • more prevaricative.
  •shrewd (adjective)
  • dis criminating,
  • sharkest,
  • in know,
  • more argute,
  • shrewdest,
  • pro-found,
  • pro found,
  • most argute,
  • pro founder,
  • Sharker,
  • in side,
  • dis-criminating,
  • quick witted,
  • on inside,
  • pro-founder,
  • wised up,
  • quickwitted.
  •sly (adjective)
  • dis honorable,
  • impish,
  • more dissembling,
  • most dissembling,
  • dis-honorable.
  •stealthy (adjective)
  • sneakest.
  •street smart (adjective)
  • street smart.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • most witted,
  • more witted,
  • wry.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • on the quiet,
  • lubricious,
  • dirty dealing,
  • dirty-dealing.
  •underhanded (adjective)
  • under-handed,
  • under handed.
  •witty (adjective)
  • droll,
  • adroit,
  • comical,
  • inventive,
  • brilliant,
  • facetious,
  • intelligent,
  • dry,
  • funny,
  • waggish,
  • smart,
  • resourceful,
  • sophisticated,
  • pointed,
  • quick-witted,
  • jocular,
  • joking,
  • scurrilous,
  • pithy,
  • sparkling,
  • urbane,
  • sarcastic,
  • scintillating.

• n.

  •
  • dubious,
  • corrupt,
  • unprincipled,
  • untruthful,
  • fraudulent,
  • unscrupulous.
  •crafty (noun)
  • study at sly,
  • sneaky.
  •tricksy (noun)
  • tricksy.
  •wily (noun)
  • knavish.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • means.
  •tricky
  • captious.

Paraphrases for Wily:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    cunning, crafty, clever.

Antonyms for Wily:

• adj.

  • crafty, clever
    forthright, aboveboard, honest, straight, frank, open.
  • Other antonyms:
    unworldly, simpleminded, unconcealed, unstudied, direct, unforced, obvious, outspoken, plainspoken, real, plain, unvarnished, trusting, trustful, public, childlike, impressionable, Undesigning, patent.

Wily Sentence Examples:

• Not the first girl you've said that about - is it, my wily William?

• I did not know then that Naomi and I had been watched all the time we had been together by a wily priest.

Homophones for Wily:

• wyly, Wiley, wylie.