wilier

Example Sentences

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As the wilier, more calculating of two friends seeking their fortune in the Old West, Orion Lee complements Magaro beautifully in “First Cow,” to the point where he almost qualifies as a lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2020

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 he is wilier than that, curious and surprisingly puckish.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2017

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

From Washington Post • May 1, 2016

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

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray