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Antonyms for wiliness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wahy-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwaɪ li |
- artlessness
- avocation
- candor
- constancy
- entertainment
- fairness
- faithfulness
- fidelity
- forthrightness
- frankness
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- inability
- incapacity
- ingenuousness
- innocence
- lack
- loyalty
- naivety
- openness
- reality
- recreation
- science
- scrupulousness
- simplicity
- sincerity
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- uncleverness
- unskill
- uprightness
Definition of wiliness
Origin :- c.1300, from wile + -ly (1). Related: Wiliness.
- As in art : noun cunning
- As in artifice : noun cunning; deception
- As in artfulness : noun cunning
- As in craftiness : noun artfulness
- As in foxiness : noun artfulness
- As in indirection : noun dishonesty
- As in shadiness : noun indirection
- As in shiftiness : noun indirection
- As in slyness : noun indirection
- As in slyness : noun artfulness
- As in sneakiness : noun indirection
- As in trickiness : noun indirection
- As in underhandedness : noun indirection
- As in craft : noun deceit, scheme
- As in dishonesty : noun lying; unwillingness to tell the truth
- As in guile : noun slyness, cleverness
- Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own.
- Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
- Bobby smiled up at him in smug satisfaction over his own wiliness.
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
- I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
- Extract from : « Frankenstein » by Mary W. Shelley
- "What the brethren wanted in strength they had in wiliness," he says.
- Extract from : « The Beginners of a Nation » by Edward Eggleston.
- It depends a lot upon the wiliness of the fox he's in pursuit of.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel » by Mary E. Hanshew
- Love had already given strength and wiliness to the countess.
- Extract from : « Maitre Cornelius » by Honore de Balzac
- I asked with a still further meekness that was the depths of wiliness.
- Extract from : « The Tinder-Box » by Maria Thompson Daviess
- Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me?
- Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various
- Perhaps it was the reputation for wiliness Forrest had earned which put the Yankee commander on his guard.
- Extract from : « Ride Proud, Rebel! » by Andre Alice Norton
- William was strong and wily, and it was this combination of strength and wiliness which enabled him to bear down all opposition.
- Extract from : « A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) » by Samuel R. Gardiner.
Synonyms for wiliness
- art
- artfulness
- artifice
- astuteness
- bunk
- cageyness
- caginess
- canniness
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- contrivance
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deception
- deviousness
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- dishonesty
- disingenuity
- dissemblance
- dissimulation
- double-cross
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- foul play
- fourberie
- foxiness
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hocus-pocus
- improbity
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- jive
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- run-around
- ruse
- scheming
- sellout
- shadiness
- sharp practice
- shiftiness
- shrewdness
- slickness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stab in the back
- stealing
- stratagem
- strategy
- subterfuge
- subtlety
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiles
- wiliness
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