What is another word for wily?
484 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ wˈa͡ɪli], [ wˈaɪli], [ w_ˈaɪ_l_i]Table of Contents
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)
Synonyms for Wily:
adj.
•Machiavellian (adjective) •arch (adjective) •artful (adjective) •calculating (adjective) •crafty (adjective) •crafty, clever (adjective)- deceptive,
- crooked,
- astute,
- greasy,
- sharp,
- smooth,
- intriguing,
- slippery,
- crazy like a fox,
- knowing,
- foxy,
- sagacious.
- masterly,
- ingenious,
- canny,
- fancy footwork,
- snaky,
- deft,
- witty,
- skillful,
- feline,
- clever,
- masterful,
- quick,
- sly boots,
- wary.
- 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.
- de-signing,
- more conspiring,
- more conniving,
- de signing,
- un-scrupulous,
- un scrupulous,
- most conniving,
- most conspiring.
- faking out,
- shady,
- insincere,
- in sincerer,
- in-sincerest,
- most obliquitous,
- in sincerest,
- more obliquitous,
- playing politics,
- in-sincere,
- in sincere,
- in-sincerer.
- 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.
- 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.
- mazier,
- more twisting,
- Meandrous,
- more snakelike,
- most coiling,
- most twisting,
- twisting turning,
- most snakelike,
- maziest,
- more coiling.
- 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.
- 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.
- droll,
- waggish,
- pointed,
- comical,
- quick-witted,
- dry,
- urbane,
- resourceful,
- jocular,
- sparkling,
- scurrilous,
- inventive,
- funny,
- intelligent,
- pithy,
- facetious,
- scintillating,
- smart,
- brilliant,
- joking,
- sarcastic,
- adroit.
n.
•crafty (noun) •knavish (noun) •Other relevant words: (noun)v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- means.
- 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.
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Antonyms for Wily:
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adj.
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crafty, clever
forthright, aboveboard, honest, straight, frank, open.
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Other antonyms:
unworldly, simpleminded, unconcealed, unstudied, direct, unforced, obvious, outspoken, plainspoken, real, plain, unvarnished, trusting, trustful, public, childlike, impressionable, Undesigning, patent.
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crafty, clever
Homophones for Wily:
- wyly, Wiley, wylie.