wily

While Karadzic was the ideologue and Milosevic the wily politician, Mladic was the soldier and his metier was waging war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Quantum particles, it turns out, are just as wily as Odysseus, as we have shown in an experiment published in Physical Review Letters.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Mr. Motoki draws a persuasive portrait of authority under pressure yet uninhibited by convention, and Mr. Suda, the star of “Cloud,” gives a performance of bitter and wily intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“The genius of the character, the cleverness, the inventiveness of him, that was a huge part of what interested me. He’s not just a soldier. He’s an amazing strategist, a very wily person.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

No fewer than four of the codices treat the story of 8-Deer Jaguar Claw, a wily priest-general-politician with a tragic love for the wife of his greatest enemy.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

Later, as he grew wilier about where power was in the music business, he targeted the producer Terry Melcher.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013

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

Of the three, the last one, “Sacred Thread,” featuring the guitarist Julian Lage and the tabla icon Zakir Hussain, packs the wiliest punch.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 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