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wily
skilled at gaining an advantage through cunning and trickery
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Wily (adjective) means skilled at gaining an advantage through cunning and trickery
Here is wily used in an example sentence: "The wily negotiator extracted concessions no one thought possible."
Common synonyms for wily include crafty, cunning, shrewd.
Antonyms of wily include naive, guileless, artless.
Wily is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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