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Wily vs Crooked - What's the difference?

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Wily is a related term of crooked.


As adjectives the difference between wily and crooked

is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while crooked is not straight; having one or more bends or angles.

As a verb crooked is

(crook).

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

    * See also

    crooked

    English

    Etymology 1

    From crook, equivalent to .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crook)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) croked, crokid, past participle of . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
    • We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.
  • Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
    • That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?
  • (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
    • He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.