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# wily

«wily» in Mova's school dictionary: **clever at tricking people to get what you want** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wilier, wiliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Wily means clever at tricking people to get what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a sly character such as a fox or a trickster in stories

### examples

- The wily fox tricked the hens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wily/#x1)
- A wily rogue hid the gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wily/#x2)
- The wily wizard had a plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.186/)
- [He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.103/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.