We tried to pin him down for a definite answer,but he was too wily for us.
The Stones are wily old businessmen: they were among the first to realise that fans would pay more for concert tickets.
The highway lobby was represented in the Senate by Knox Nelson, a wily legislator and road contractor himself, who wanted the money but didn't really care how it was raised.
Kotloff says that influenza is a wily virus, one that is difficult to predict.
No one in Anjou had better hearing or could speak the local dialect more clearly than the wily winegrower.
"Netherland" is a bit like the wily and ebullient Chuck Ramkissoon. It has more life inside it than 10 very good novels.
Even Mr Klaus, a wily operator, may struggle to find excuses to stall for eight months.
But the wily ant on the right is standing on a pebble to gain a solid inch over his Nemesis.
Charles Rangel, a wily New Yorker, is in charge of the Ways and Means Committee, arguably the most powerful in the House; James Clyburn is majority whip, the third-ranking Democrat in the chamber.
But wily as he is, Mr Assad would be wrong to relax.
God damn wily Europeans.
In a new turn for his veteran career, the wily 78-year-old investor will shortly add cartoon star to that list.
"The wily old fellow said to his son,""Have a care, Joe. That girl is setting her cap at you."""
Women are wily adversaries, and if you're not on your best game and on your toes at all times, they'll cut you off at the knees.
Making wily choices about possible jurisdictions is often criticised as "forum shopping".
The energetic and wily Mr Rubalcaba is the more obvious choice.
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