Usually means: Cunning, cleverness in achieving goals.
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  1. wiliness: Merriam-Webster
  2. wiliness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wiliness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wiliness: Vocabulary.com
  5. wiliness: Wordnik
  6. wiliness: Wiktionary
  7. wiliness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. wiliness: Dictionary.com
  9. Wiliness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wiliness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. wiliness: Rhymezone
  12. Wiliness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. wiliness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. wiliness: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wiliness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wiliness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wiliness: Legal dictionary

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  1. wiliness: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  deceitful cleverness or shrewdness

Similar:
cunning, craftiness, guile, slyness, foxiness, craft, savvy, savviness, acuteness, cleverness, more...

Opposite:
candor, honesty, sincerity

Types:
deceitfulness, cunning, slyness, trickery, craftiness, guile, duplicity, sneakiness, artfulness, more...

Adjectives:
crafty, own, certain, simple, political, feminine, great, inconceivable, natural, usual, indian

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Similar:
cunning, craftiness, guile, slyness, foxiness, craft, savvy, savviness, acuteness, cleverness, more...

Opposite:
candor, honesty, sincerity

Types:
deceitfulness, cunning, slyness, trickery, craftiness, guile, duplicity, sneakiness, artfulness, more...

Adjectives:
crafty, own, certain, simple, political, feminine, great, inconceivable, natural, usual, indian



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