- comparative of wily.
wilier
Example Sentences
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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
This had become the norm: with declining media coverage and wilier evasions by the police, the dead tended to disappear.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 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
It’s easy to imagine a wilier or more strategic leader, or even a better politician, in that role.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2018
“Well, there ain’t too many animals wilier or tougher than a old coon. Most people think you just chase ’em up a tree and pop ’em, but that ain’t half the story.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
