Wily

(superl.) Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle.

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• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Pablo is very wily. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I am a wily Italian and a suspicious Italian. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We Italians are all wily and suspicious by nature, in the estimation of the good John Bull. 威尔基·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. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I see a preternatural lure in its wily glance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, good Sir Maurice, rejoined the wily politician, start not aside like a scared steed, without, at least, considering the object of your terror. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But he was too wily for that. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Ay, but thou forgettest, said the wily adviser, thou wilt have neither leisure nor opportunity to execute this mad project. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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