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wiliest

wiliest is the superlative 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 wiliest

What is wiliest the superlative form of?
Wiliest is the superlative form of wily.

Words near wiliest in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiliest (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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