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Wiry vs Wily - What's the difference?

wiry | wily |

As adjectives the difference between wiry and wily

is that wiry is thin, muscular and flexible while wily is sly, cunning, full of tricks.

wiry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Thin, muscular and flexible.
    • Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry .

    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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