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Wildly vs Wilily - What's the difference?

wildly | wilily |

As adverbs the difference between wildly and wilily

is that wildly is in a wild, uncontrolled manner while wilily is in a wily manner.

wildly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a wild, uncontrolled manner.
    • He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.}}

    wilily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a wily manner.