wily的意思|wily的解释-里氏词典

wily ['waili]

a. 使用计谋的, 有诡计的, 狡猾的

wily
wilier, wiliest

[ adj ]
marked by skill in deception
<adj.all>
cunning men often pass for wisedeep political machinations
a foxy scheme
a slick evasive answer
sly as a fox
tricky Dick
a wily old attorney

Wily \Wil"y\, a. [Compar. {Wilier}; superl. {Wiliest}.] [From
{Wile}.]
Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or
stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful;
subtle. ``Wily and wise.'' --Chaucer. ``The wily snake.''
--Milton.

This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.
--South.

Syn: Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See {Cunning}.

These are the weasel words of the wily whip; they do not win anyone's respect.
I have no sympathy for companies that are finding that some of the unclaimed rebates, which they counted on keeping, are going instead to other consumers who are outwitting this wily system.
Had he but time enough, there was more that Bush might have borrowed from this archly romantic poem about the wily warrior of Greek myth.
But any policy-maker who acts on that assumption would be a fool. Fortunately, Alan Greenspan, the cautious and wily chairman of the Federal Reserve, does not fall into this category.
There was some speculation that the warm-up loss was a set-up by the wily Mr. Gates, and someone from Microsoft was indeed seen taking bets.
But the wily financier, who is also the oil giant's biggest shareholder, says he thinks it could go either way.
But political commentators said the wily president could well surprise everyone with an unexpected choice.
The wily Mr. Assad has dropped just enough crumbs about his desire for peace to give Mr. Shamir's aides something to keep chewing on.
"We're not trying to be cute on this," insists Richard G. Darman, Bush's wily budget director, architect of this week's White House maneuvering.
Yet there is - is there not? - a potential manifesto proposal in all this that could regain the initiative from the wily firm of Kinnock and Smith.
In the 1970s, wily Southern Democrats like Louisiana's Joe D. Waggoner Jr. were still able to build coalitions with the Republicans.
They continued in 1990 with the appointment of a state-selected prefet to represent the government in the region. But the wily mayor has battled back.
Shatara, a wily, illiterate odd-job man, inspired by hashish only manages to dream of making his fortune from selling the hospital's archives.
The success was due more to the wily campaigning of Mr Gerhard Schroder, his arch-rival within the SPD, the state premier in Lower Saxony, and the man he defeated for the party leadership last year.
The Underworld is a subway station, the Flatbush Avenue Express roaring past. True to form, Odysseus (Ron Cook) is wily and Penelope (Amanda Harris) faithful; their qualities are challenged by an assortment of rejuvenated Homeric figures around them.
The cyst that grew on the middle finger of President Bush's right hand may have started from some minor, forgotten injury that happened during a game of tennis or horseshoes, or while he stalked the wily trout or bluefish.
We have always been skeptical of how much a balanced-budget amendment could restrain the spending habits of a wily Congress.
She's as wily as any street tough, and capable of startling cruelty.
A Japanese monkey on the loose for 10 months in southern Indiana is feasting on bananas, peanut butter and cat food this week while authorities try to figure out how to capture the wily fugitive.
It seems likely that Bush and Baker will discuss another wily, determined quarry while on the ranch _ deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega.
This event will match the British youth/disabled crew of Dolphin against the wily grand master, Dennis Conner, at the helm of his money-no-object entry Winston. Also in that fleet will be the US Women's Challenge led by Nance Frank.
Turner said the birds are apparently pen-raised wild turkeys that have been freed and don't have the wily instincts of their wild counterparts.
Icahn and Lorenzo are wily and tenacious executives who dueled over control of TWA three years ago.

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