wily

To play the wily Kanbei, Kurosawa enlisted his young “Cloud” star Suda, whom he calls a genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

For Neill, it was the passion for complex, wily characters, and how those types of people reacted in situations that were equally complicated.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

What about Novak Djokovic, that wily old goat rattling around the bracket, 24 majors to his name?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The Rangers head coach has been put out of the League Cup, Scottish Cup and now condemned to third place in the Scottish Premiership by his wily old Celtic counterpart Martin O'Neill.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

“Pull it and hear the drum beat,” said the wily man, holding out the string to Puli, and how could he resist it, who was only a child, when I myself was enchanted!

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Factories are now able to supply better quality masks to meet the challenge of wilier new variants, but the communal work continues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

But Skeets’s poetry is wilier, more harrowing than that.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019

True, historically, British boors have shared little kinship with their American cousins; ours has been a wilier boorishness, obscured by a miasma of supercilious, ironic detachment.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019

Schmeichel came flying out in his trademark intimidatory pose, arms outstretched and his legs wide, but he was up against a wilier opponent than usual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2012

So far, the fish had proved wilier than they’d imagined.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

In Iran, the president faces some of his wiliest and most implacable opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

The wiliest or greediest adult children have their eye on the main prize: real estate.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

Until the events of last Friday, Mr Rutte was seen as one of the wiliest survivors in European politics, even earning the nickname of "Teflon Mark".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Porzingis, the wiliest on the team at drawing fouls, got to the free throw line with 4:40 to play and his team down seven.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands I leapt and stood on the broad door sill, his own bow in his hand.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer