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Wily vs Deceptive - What's the difference?

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Wily is a related term of deceptive.


As adjectives the difference between wily and deceptive

is that wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks while deceptive is .

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.

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    deceptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • misleading, likely or attempting to deceive
    • deceptive advertising
    deceptive practices
  • * Trench
    • language altogether deceptive , and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes

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    Derived terms

    * deceptive advertising * deceptive cadence * deceptive cognate

    Related terms

    * deception * deceptively * deceive * deceit