wily

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

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

They are perhaps even more wily than that, hoping for a match.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

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