Wily
['waɪlɪ] or ['waɪli]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.
整理:米歇尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Insidious, artful, cunning, sly, crafty, subtle, arch, designing, deceitful, treacherous, trickish, TRICKY, intriguing, politic, foxy, snaky, crooked, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
贝弗莉錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Artful, crafty, cunning, subtle, sly,[See ARTFUL]
沙琳編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. full of wiles or tricks: using craft or stratagem: artful: sly.—adv. Wī′lily.—n. Wī′liness cunning.
手打:朱迪
例句/造句/用法:
- It is a dark and intricate story of treacheries, cruelties, and hate, in which the death of the wily Histi?us shines almost cheerfully. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pablo is very wily. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I am a wily Italian and a suspicious Italian. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We Italians are all wily and suspicious by nature, in the estimation of the good John Bull. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Crispin, pitying the terror of Caliphronas, in spite of his dislike for the wily Greek, took him below and gave him some brandy. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I see a preternatural lure in its wily glance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why, good Sir Maurice, rejoined the wily politician, start not aside like a scared steed, without, at least, considering the object of your terror. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But he was too wily for that. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Ay, but thou forgettest, said the wily adviser, thou wilt have neither leisure nor opportunity to execute this mad project. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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