484 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ wˈa͡ɪli], [ wˈa‍ɪli], [ w_ˈaɪ_l_i]

Similar words for wily:

• Machiavellian (adjective)
• arch (adjective)
• artful (adjective)
• calculating (adjective)
• crafty (adjective)
• crafty, clever (adjective)
• cunning (adjective)
• deceitful (adjective)
• deceptive (adjective)
• deep (adjective)
• designing (adjective)
• devious (adjective)
• diplomatic (adjective)
• dishonest (adjective)
• disingenuous (adjective)
• double-dealing (adjective)
• foxy (adjective)
• furtive (adjective)
• insidious (adjective)
• intuitive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• serpentine (adjective)
• shifty (adjective)
• shrewd (adjective)
• sly (adjective)
• stealthy (adjective)
• subtle (adjective)
• tricky (adjective)
• underhand (adjective)
• underhanded (adjective)
• witty (adjective)
• crafty (noun)
• knavish (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• tricky
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for wily

Homophones for wily

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.
  • insidious (adjective)
  • like a snake in the grass.
  • intuitive (adjective)
  • instinctive,
  • insightful,
  • far-sighted,
  • sophisticated,
  • intuitive,
  • instinctual.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • deep,
  • insidious,
  • crafty,
  • artful,
  • shark,
  • snakelike,
  • furtive,
  • Retiary,
  • disingenuous,
  • dodgy,
  • dishonest,
  • designing,
  • up on,
  • sneaking,
  • under-the-table,
  • streetwise,
  • twisting and turning,
  • opportunistic,
  • on the inside,
  • tricky,
  • crazy like fox,
  • sly,
  • serpentine,
  • scheming,
  • Double dealing,
  • sub-rosa,
  • obliquitous,
  • guileful,
  • on top of,
  • devious,
  • prevaricative,
  • shifty,
  • playing games,
  • in the know,
  • deceitful,
  • shorthanded,
  • faking one out,
  • subtle,
  • arch,
  • underhanded,
  • underhand,
  • Astucious,
  • stealthy,
  • conspiratorial,
  • diplomatic,
  • Impostrous,
  • prevaricatory,
  • cagey,
  • complicit,
  • Witted,
  • mazy,
  • vulpine,
  • not straightforward,
  • calculating,
  • shrewd.
  • 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.
  • subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  • tricky (adjective)
  • most witted,
  • more witted,
  • wry.
  • underhand (adjective)
  • dirty-dealing,
  • dirty dealing,
  • on the quiet.
  • underhanded (adjective)
  • under-handed,
  • under handed.
  • witty (adjective)
  • droll,
  • waggish,
  • pointed,
  • comical,
  • quick-witted,
  • dry,
  • urbane,
  • resourceful,
  • jocular,
  • sparkling,
  • scurrilous,
  • inventive,
  • funny,
  • intelligent,
  • pithy,
  • facetious,
  • scintillating,
  • smart,
  • brilliant,
  • joking,
  • sarcastic,
  • adroit.

• n.

  •
  • dubious,
  • corrupt,
  • unprincipled,
  • untruthful,
  • fraudulent,
  • unscrupulous.
  • crafty (noun)
  • study at sly,
  • sneaky.
  • knavish (noun)
  • knavish.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • cunning.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • means.
  • tricky
  • captious.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • eagerly,
  • lying,
  • fly,
  • diabolical,
  • deceitfully,
  • janus-faced,
  • wise,
  • collusive,
  • sage,
  • nefarious,
  • deceive,
  • devil,
  • glib,
  • Deceiving,
  • secret,
  • mischievously,
  • percipient,
  • qualm,
  • artificial,
  • cautious,
  • perspicacious,
  • discerning,
  • faithless,
  • craftily,
  • resist,
  • supple,
  • slickly,
  • perceptive,
  • silky,
  • astutely,
  • mephistophelian,
  • Subtile,
  • treacherous,
  • Subreptitious,
  • defraud,
  • apprehension,
  • thin,
  • slyly,
  • jesuitical,
  • supposition,
  • significant,
  • cagy,
  • unctuous,
  • satiny,
  • sharply,
  • conniving,
  • downy,
  • keenly,
  • smarmy,
  • nimble,
  • falsify,
  • ENG,
  • evil,
  • cunningly,
  • fear,
  • sophistical,
  • designingly,
  • meaningful,
  • belie,
  • go against,
  • graceful,
  • vision,
  • ingeniously,
  • hunch,
  • dirty trick,
  • tricksy,
  • shrewdly,
  • satanic,
  • delude,
  • subtly,
  • satin,
  • misgiving,
  • misleading,
  • spectre,
  • deep-laid,
  • inkling,
  • spirit,
  • hypocritical,
  • silklike,
  • dirty work,
  • contradict,
  • ready,
  • two-faced,
  • misrepresent,
  • oppose,
  • wickedly,
  • trickily,
  • reptilian,
  • deviously,
  • byzantine,
  • traitorous,
  • up to snuff,
  • zealously,
  • Subdolous,
  • evilly,
  • casuistic,
  • dicey,
  • distrust,
  • delicate,
  • Contriving,
  • Plotting,
  • counterfeit,
  • phantom,
  • Foxlike,
  • artfully,
  • hint,
  • beguiling,
  • slim,
  • strategic,
  • skilful,
  • demon,
  • ability,
  • profound,
  • slimy,
  • defy,
  • betray,
  • tactical,
  • pretend,
  • street smart,
  • hidden,
  • timeserving,
  • chancy,
  • sleek,
  • dissembling,
  • suspicion,
  • insidiously,
  • diplomatically,
  • long-headed,
  • evasive,
  • glossy,
  • shiftily,
  • finagling,
  • machiavellian,
  • contravene,
  • leery,
  • Conspiring,
  • politic,
  • private,
  • cheating,
  • simulate,
  • know,
  • pat,
  • circumvent,
  • untrustworthy,
  • sneakily,
  • false,
  • falsehearted,
  • scruple,
  • guilefully,
  • pawky,
  • controvert,
  • no,
  • sagaciously,
  • surreptitious,
  • deny,
  • affect,
  • bent,
  • badly,
  • Time-serving,
  • cheat,
  • acute,
  • bad,
  • dissemble,
  • chanceful,
  • catchy,
  • viciously,
  • foxily,
  • lubricious,
  • wise man,
  • chiefly,
  • calculated,
  • indirect,
  • doubt,
  • Chiseling,
  • archly,
  • Covinous,
  • cleverly,
  • keen,
  • specter,
  • expressive,
  • behind ones back,
  • duplicitous,
  • be at variance,
  • ungenuine,
  • apparition,
  • hesitation,
  • devilish,
  • feign,
  • mistrust,
  • eloquent,
  • Trickish,
  • smartly,
  • oily,
  • silken,
  • secretive,
  • cute,
  • immorally,
  • Daedalian,
  • ghost,
  • two-timing,
  • assume.

Paraphrases for Wily:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    clever, crafty, cunning.

Homophones for Wily:

• wyly, Wiley, wylie.