Usually means: Cleverly and deceitfully skillful; cunning.
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  1. wilily: Merriam-Webster
  2. wilily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wilily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wilily: Vocabulary.com
  5. wilily: Wordnik
  6. wilily: Wiktionary
  7. wilily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. wilily: Dictionary.com
  9. wilily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. wilily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wilily: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a wily manner.

Similar:
wrily, willowily, cleverly, wirily, slyly, witchily, wilsomely, cunningly, wispily, waspishly, more...

Opposite:
unwittingly, unintentionally, inadvertently

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Similar:
wrily, willowily, cleverly, wirily, slyly, witchily, wilsomely, cunningly, wispily, waspishly, more...

Opposite:
unwittingly, unintentionally, inadvertently



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