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Treacherous vs Wily - What's the difference?

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Treacherous is a related term of wily.


As adjectives the difference between treacherous and wily

is that treacherous is exhibiting treachery while wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks.

treacherous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting treachery.
  • Deceitful; inclined to betray.
  • Unreliable; dangerous.
    • a treacherous mountain trail

    Antonyms

    * (exhibiting treachery) loyal

    Related terms

    * treacher * treachery * trick * trickster * tricky

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    wily

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • sly, cunning, full of tricks
    • Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

    Synonyms

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