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

I hadn’t heard any of the songs which, people said, were wilier and more mischievous than the straighter, soapier, we’re-in-love-now ballads that defined Disney movies past.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2019

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

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2019

Cuban is older than me and — by almost any objective standard — wiser, wealthier and wilier.

From Washington Post • May 1, 2016

“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