Example sentences for: wily

How can you use “wily” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The wily Cuban dictator will either sabotage the plan or turn it to his own uses.

  • Annibale Carracci's Ignudo (1597) transforms one of the languorous young male nudes of Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling into a wily, satyr-like character--he could be Shakespeare's Mercutio.

  • It would require Pakistani approval, he wrote; and "Pak[istan's] intel[ligence service] is in bed with" Bin Ladin and would warn him that the United States was getting ready for a bombing campaign: "Armed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad."

  • Of the despised and wily but accommodating Greek, Juvenal says In caelum iusseris, ibit: “Tell him to go to the sky, and he will be off.”

  • And now, as if the chronically stupid Christopher and the paranoid Uncle Junior and the wily, batty Livia weren't enough to make Tony strung out, we've got Richie Aprile.


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