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wilier

wilier is the comparative 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.

Questions about wilier

What is wilier the comparative form of?
Wilier is the comparative form of wily.

Words near wilier in the dictionary

  1. Wilhites
  2. Wilhoit
  3. Wilhoite
  4. Wilhoites
  5. Wilhoits
  6. wilier
  7. wiliest
  8. Wiliideh
  9. wilily
  10. wiliness
  11. wilinesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilier (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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