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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Full of wiles; cunning.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of wiles; subtle; cunning; crafty; sly.
  2. Synonyms Cunning, Artful, Sly, etc. (see cunning), designing, deceitful, foxy, diplomatic, delusive, insidious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. sly, cunning, full of tricks

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by skill in deception

Etymologies

  1. From wile ("ruse, trick") + -y (Wiktionary)

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