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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

cunning, crafty, and clever;

e.g. The wily negotiator came up with a business deal that ultimately put his client at an advantage without the other side knowing.

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Similar Words

Ambidextrous

Artful

Assuming

Beguiling

Cagey

Crafty

Cunning

Cute

Designing

Devious

Dodgy

Foxy

Insidious

Perspicacious

Resourceful

Scheming

Slick

Sly

Slyly

Subtile

Subtle

Trickish

Tricky

Untrustworthy

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Opposite Words

Aboveboard

Artless

Bonehead

Brain-dead

Brainless

Candid

Dense

Dim

Dim-witted

Direct

Dopey

Dorky

Dull

Dumb

Empty-headed

Forthright

Frank

Genuine

Gormless

Guileless

Honest

Impressionable

Lamebrain

Mindless

Natural

Obtuse

Obvious

Opaque

Open

Outspoken

Patent

Persuadable

Pinheaded

Plain

Plainspoken

Public

Real

Senseless

Sincere

Slow

Slow-witted

Softheaded

Straightforward

Stupid

Thick

Thick-witted

Thickheaded

True

Truthful

Unaffected

Unconcealed

Undesigning

Unforced

Unintellectual

Unintelligent

Unpretentious

Unsmart

Unstudied

Unthinking

Vacuous

Veracious

Weak-minded

Witless

Witted

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Related Words

Alert

Arch

Archer

Astute

Backhanded

Beguiling

Bent

Brainy

Bright

Brilliant

Calculating

Canny

Circuitous

Circular

Clandestine

Clever

Concealed

Covert

Crooked

Deceitful

Deceptive

Delusive

Devilish

Dishonest

Duplicitous

Elvish

Exceptional

Facile

Fallacious

False

Fast

Fraudulent

Furtive

Glib

Heady

Hyperintelligent

Hypocritical

Impish

Insincere

Insinuating

Intelligent

Keen

Knavish

Left-handed

Machiavellian

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mischievous

Nimble

Oblique

Pixie

Prankish

Puckish

Quick

Quick-witted

Rascally

Roundabout

Secret

Serpentine

Shady

Sharp

Sharp-witted

Shifty

Slippery

Sly

Slyly

Smart

Smooth-tongued

Sneaking

Sneaky

Specious

Stealthy

Supersmart

Surreptitious

Treacherous

Tricksy

Two-faced

Ultrasmart

Undercover

Underhand

Underhanded

Unscrupulous

Waggish

Wicked

Witted

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