The wily coyote was always tricked by the sly rabbit. From LearnThat.org.
"Oh rocky," the animal control officer called the wily raccoon. From Wordnik.com. [WXIX - LSN Breaking News - Mobile Use Only] Reference
Mr. Musharraf is known as a wily fox here in India, and his speech shows exactly why that is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2002] Reference
Public Safety Director Stephen Poloni tells The Detroit News coyotes are "called wily for a reason" and says "sharpshooters may be a last resort.". From Wordnik.com. [WXYZ-TV Detroit - 7 Action News] Reference
My friend was a 'wily' manager - he kept a close eye on his employees, never trusting anyone. From Wordnik.com. [The Chamber of Secrets] Reference
Whoever Isaac is, I imagine he's the kind of wily thinker disinformationists long to have on their payroll. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
While both trends could certainly be leveraged for "wily" marketing purposes, the two should actually be. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea Learned: Sustainable Business Serves The Women's Market, Naturally] Reference
Actually … "wily" may be a better description than crafty. From Wordnik.com. [Devilish Southern Belle] Reference
Jesmer is known to be a wily strategist in his own right. From Wordnik.com. [The Juice: Poersch, Jesmer try to put their parties on top in the Senate] Reference
But, if nothing else, the Palestinian leader is a wily survivor. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The 'Un-Arafat'] Reference
Turner knew that CEO Gerald Levin was wily, resilient and dedicated. From Wordnik.com. [Why Ted Gave It Away] Reference
Kirchner has not only grabbed it, but proved himself to be a wily politician. From Wordnik.com. [From Sap To Superhero] Reference
Thank goodness, her students were wily enough to cover ears with long black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Firefly Squids] Reference
But some of these critters are plenty big — and they are wily and unpredictable. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Heartbeats] Reference
It was Carville, the campaign's wily strategist and a former marine, who took charge. From Wordnik.com. [Testing Ground] Reference
Darman is a wily survivor, but some White House aides predicted he would be gone by summer. From Wordnik.com. [Is Buchanan Running The Country?] Reference
But Bryan Singer ( "The Usual Suspects") is a wily director, and the cast looks ready to rumble. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle For Summer] Reference
Instead of Ken Starr, there's "The Cat," McCain's wily and vicious North Vietnamese interrogator. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Human Hero] Reference
Mandela, wily as he is, is an old-fashioned politician motivated by his own personal convictions. From Wordnik.com. [Now It's Time For Justice] Reference
The children seemed to grow older, their character less acutely noble, their enemies more wily. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
Grammy loves those wily Nashville crooners, so we're predicting Shelby Lynne will take the trophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Pick Of The Glitter] Reference
When AZT hit the market nine years ago, researchers didn't realize what a wily foe they were up against. From Wordnik.com. [Targeting A Deadly Scrap Of Genetic Code] Reference
Instead, the wily consumer activist has found an opening that could doom John Kerry's chances in November. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Nader Factor] Reference
Jason Robards also won an Oscar for his assured portrayal of wily, seasoned Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: The Graduate Turns 73: Dustin Hoffman's Top Ten Movies] Reference
Lasch's Smith was the wily monster; Black's was a normal fellow being punished by a vengeful lover who hated men. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial You Won't See] Reference
Arafat, the wily, stubble-faced guerrilla, was the best-known face of international terror in the 1970s and 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [A Deadly Passover... And A State Of Siege] Reference
We witness a politician at the top of his game: Freeman's wily Mandela is a master of charm and soft-spoken gravitas. From Wordnik.com. [‘Invictus’: A Whole New Ballgame] Reference
The wily prime minister, who was himself a Khmer Rouge commander, fears it would destabilize his country and embarrass him. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia's Killers Win Again] Reference
With the U. S.-backed Roadmap in tatters and Abbas's popularity sinking, Arafat, the wily survivor, is flexing his muscles again. From Wordnik.com. [Arafat Rebounds (Again)] Reference
The eminent physicist John Archibald Wheeler, Feynman's thesis supervisor, suggested one wily version of the double-slit experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Faster Than What?] Reference
As the two became friends, the wily, ethereal Pei Pu revealed his deepest secret: he was really a woman, raised since birth as a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Much Stranger Than Fiction] Reference
But it was also up against a wily defense team that approached the case like a political campaign, using heavy polling and focus groups. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
Efforts to change the dynamics of the Middle East had always collapsed in the past as its wily rulers would delay, obstruct and obfuscate. From Wordnik.com. [What Bush Got Right] Reference
Though maybe they're really only the least foolish, the most wily — no need assigning any more brilliance to these people than necessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Your Brother] Reference
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