Fred Silverman

You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark - a funny and shrewd guy - into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.

American Producer

Roger McGuinn

I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.

American Musician

Mark McKinnon

Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

American Businessman

Andrew Neil

The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.

British Journalist

Christopher Priest

If I could make Panther tough, mysterious, wily, and often at odds with his 'Avengers' comrades, that was a character I'd find interesting.

American Writer

Robin DiAngelo

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.

American Educator

P. J. O'Rourke

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

American Comedian

Wily implies a cleverness used for trickery or deception.

Sneaky Intelligence

Although 'wily' involves cleverness, it often has a negative connotation, suggesting dishonesty.

Negative Connotation

'Wily' can be used admiringly for resourcefulness, even if the methods are questionable.

Nuanced Usage

 and the salesman was about to turn back, when he heard a high-pitched yelp coming from the edge of the forest. Following the screams to their source, he discovered a trapped tanuki. While these racoon-like creatures were known for their wily ways, this one appeared terrified and powerless.

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 to guide us. We'd see so many other hackathons that came up with wily, ambitious, incredible technological solutions that sounded great in theory but ultimately failed to work in the actual countries they were intended to help. Many of us have been living abroad for years,

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 which is probably the biggest reason of all. The first reason is certainly scientific. This little parasite that causes malaria, it's probably one of the most complex and wily pathogens known to humankind. It lives half its life inside the cold-blooded mosquito

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 and dependent on the gods for protection. However, Prometheus envisioned his crude creations with a greater purpose. So when Zeus asked him to decide how sacrifices would be made, the wily Prometheus planned a trick that would give humans some advantage.

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 So Loki rushed to their realm, deep within the mountains of the earth. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding. He decided that his best bet was to pit two families against each other.

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 like stilts which is actually a crucial adaptation for soft swampy soil narupa says the rain forest is full of little innovations like this sometimes they're wily sometimes they're beautiful but each one shows just how clever plant life can be

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 looking at the victim for a change with the scrub hair right here regarded by the sand as a very intelligent animal he is very wily and very sort of capable of determining and figuring out things and quite a term of endearment towards them

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 that bind the carbon to the surfaces of the minerals. See when carbon is entrapped in soil, in these kinds of associations with soil minerals, even the wiliest of the microbes can't easily degrade it. And carbon that's not degrading fast

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 tenacity she's a real wily old survivor often when we find her she's lagging far behind the rest of the herd so she doesn't really have downtime like the rest of the elephants she struggles hard you can see the strain that her body has

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 and these children can do that. But guess what? We find recently that the wily cuttlefish also has this ability, and in experiments last summer, when you present a cuttlefish with different foods at different times,

Wily

Being smart and careful in a sneaky way to reach a goal.

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