What are the antonyms for WILY?
- impressionable, open, plain, Undesigning, patent, aboveboard, unvarnished, unconcealed, public, trustful, simpleminded, outspoken, unstudied, honest, plainspoken, unforced, childlike, forthright, straight, trusting, frank, unworldly, real, direct, obvious.
Synonyms for WILY
- assume,
- property,
- badly,
- deceive,
- droll,
- Time-serving,
- underhanded,
- cute,
- cagey,
- smart,
- diabolical,
- shorthanded,
- faking one out,
- perspicacious,
- snakelike,
- be at variance,
- spectre,
- foxily,
- witty,
- sophistical,
- sly boots,
- beguiling,
- snide,
- deep-laid,
- prevaricative,
- collusive,
- glossy,
- fraudulent,
- smarmy,
- conniving,
- sharply,
- like a snake in the grass,
- instinctive,
- machiavellian,
- slimy,
- shrewd,
- slyly,
- waggish,
- sagacious,
- cheat,
- mistrust,
- masterful,
- Subtile,
- Retiary,
- disingenuous,
- satanic,
- clever,
- deny,
- ghost,
- misrepresent,
- street smart,
- cagy,
- sub-rosa,
- nimble,
- timeserving,
- crafty,
- opportunistic,
- safest,
- artful,
- fly,
- brilliant,
- acute,
- craftily,
- tricksy,
- insightful,
- hidden,
- resourceful,
- unfrank,
- greasy,
- defy,
- suspicion,
- subtly,
- Contriving,
- slippery,
- calculated,
- designingly,
- specter,
- Witted,
- sneakily,
- facetious,
- cleverly,
- casuistic,
- untruthful,
- misgiving,
- crooked,
- streetwise,
- ungenuine,
- deceptive,
- conspiratorial,
- dissembling,
- nefarious,
- percipient,
- diplomatically,
- no,
- intriguing,
- chancy,
- doubt,
- hesitation,
- ingenious,
- fancy footwork,
- stealthy,
- comical,
- falsify,
- Deceiving,
- sleek,
- crazy like fox,
- skilful,
- pat,
- faithless,
- delicate,
- immorally,
- shifty,
- fear,
- falsehearted,
- furtive,
- finagling,
- deft,
- Conspiring,
- janus-faced,
- serpentine,
- traitorous,
- means,
- on the quiet,
- cheating,
- cunningly,
- mephistophelian,
- twisting and turning,
- Imposturous,
- Impostrous,
- untrustworthy,
- smartly,
- ability,
- slickly,
- glib,
- controvert,
- gingerly,
- hypocritical,
- sharp,
- demon,
- diplomatic,
- crazy like a fox,
- SAFER,
- secret,
- corrupt,
- strategic,
- misleading,
- seeming,
- dicey,
- devilish,
- devious,
- under-the-table,
- perceptive,
- unctuous,
- dry,
- keenly,
- intelligent,
- circumvent,
- betray,
- oily,
- scintillating,
- cautious,
- private,
- prevaricatory,
- shady,
- sneaking,
- lubricious,
- resist,
- pretend,
- knowing,
- discerning,
- contravene,
- supposition,
- guilefully,
- apprehension,
- reptilian,
- chiefly,
- expressive,
- scheming,
- dishonest,
- slick,
- funny,
- significant,
- Trickish,
- intuitive,
- astutely,
- deviously,
- not straightforward,
- counterfeit,
- evasive,
- feign,
- archly,
- perfidious,
- ratiocinative,
- shrewdly,
- underhand,
- guileful,
- complicit,
- manipulative,
- ready,
- keen,
- insidiously,
- Double dealing,
- knavish,
- hint,
- pointed,
- long-headed,
- surreptitious,
- chanceful,
- supple,
- trickily,
- oppose,
- dodgy,
- satin,
- spirit,
- dirty trick,
- far-sighted,
- feline,
- on the inside,
- smooth,
- urbane,
- inventive,
- pawky,
- Foxlike,
- masterly,
- up to snuff,
- belie,
- scurrilous,
- in the know,
- foxy,
- sage,
- treacherous,
- secretive,
- two-timing,
- unscrupulous,
- vision,
- silky,
- skillful,
- duplicitous,
- playing games,
- bent,
- Plotting,
- more intelligent,
- deceitful,
- eloquent,
- leery,
- dubious,
- Uncandid,
- bad,
- phantom,
- snaky,
- deceitfully,
- on top of,
- slim,
- jesuitical,
- false,
- study at sly,
- viciously,
- qualm,
- insidious,
- sneaky,
- captious,
- Astucious,
- dirty work,
- know,
- two-faced,
- downy,
- affect,
- Covinous,
- quick-witted,
- wise,
- tricky,
- sparkling,
- distrust,
- dirty-dealing,
- contradict,
- wise man,
- astute,
- sarcastic,
- eagerly,
- profound,
- sly,
- meaningful,
- thin,
- graceful,
- up on,
- canny,
- jocular,
- instinctual,
- quick,
- politic,
- Daedalian,
- hunch,
- unprincipled,
- ENG,
- pithy,
- simulate,
- dirty dealing,
- evil,
- designing,
- shiftily,
- apparition,
- cunning,
- wickedly,
- inkling,
- calculating,
- obliquitous,
- vulpine,
- adroit,
- behind ones back,
- lying,
- sagaciously,
- artificial,
- dissemble,
- catchy,
- mendacious,
- deep,
- delude,
- sophisticated,
- joking,
- shark,
- go against,
- subtle,
- silklike,
- tactical,
- evilly,
- Subdolous,
- zealously,
- mischievously,
- scruple,
- byzantine,
- Subreptitious,
- ingeniously,
- Chiseling,
- artfully,
- wary,
- indirect,
- insincere,
- defraud,
- mazy,
- silken,
- arch,
- satiny.
Usage Examples for WILY
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How cutting was the anguish which the good man felt, when he perceived this turn in the wily Prince! - "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
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The fact of his early arrival was sufficient to prove that the wily sachem had known of the movements of the soldiers for a certain length of time, - perhaps several days,- and this might explain why his march from Cherry Valley had been so steady and swift. - "The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley" by James Otis
