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wilely

wilely is the obsolete form of wily.

Meaning of wily

Adjective

wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)

  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks.
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette, and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

Forms of wilely

comparativemore wilely
superlativemost wilely

Questions about wilely

What is wilely the obsolete form of?
Wilely is the obsolete form of wily.

Words near wilely in the dictionary

  1. wile out
  2. wiled
  3. wiled out
  4. wileful
  5. wileless
  6. wilely
  7. Wileman
  8. Wilemans
  9. Wilemon
  10. Wilemons
  11. Wilen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilely (page history and authors); wily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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