Read full poem →With rhymes of this per cent, and that per year?
Or court a wife, spread out his wily parts,
Like nets or lime-twigs, for rich widows' hearts:
Dictionary Entry
Sly, cunning, full of tricks
In a Sentence
“Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “wily”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts,
And wins (oh shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts.
Read full poem →Nothing I love that at all times avails me.
Wily Corinna saw this blemish in me,
And craftily knows by what means to win me. 10
Read full poem →Foxes and goats; all beasts change when they please,
Shall women, more hot, wily, wild then these,
Be bound to one man, and did Nature then
Read full poem →filled with a noble trust in God. In the second scene we breathe the
unhallowed air of the abode of the wily tempter, who endeavours, "under
fair pretence of friendly ends," to wind himself into the pure heart of
Read full poem →The keen stars twinkle in our eyes,
The birds gave us our wily tongues,
The panther in our dances flies.
Read full poem →But a' your doings to rehearse,
Your wily snares an' fechtin fierce,
Sin' that day Michael did you pierce,
Read full poem →Detested Cali, too, with artful wonder,
Would shake his wily head, and closely whisper,
Beware of Mustapha, beware of treason.
Read full poem →But shun, rash youth! the gay alcove,
Nor tempt the snares of wily love. 10