Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Wily
wily, adj. [ON vel; craft, artifice, contrivance, engine.] (webplay: cunning).
Tricky; clever; devious; purposeful; sly; crafty; cunning; artful; untrustworthy; not benign; [fig.] deadly; deathly; mortal.
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