wily

wily
    adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
           wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
           slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a
           wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy},
           {foxy}, {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy},
           {tricky}, {wily}]
    

Wily \Wil"y\, a. [Compar. {Wilier}; superl. {Wiliest}.] [From
   {Wile}.]
   Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or
   stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful;
   subtle. "Wily and wise." --Chaucer. "The wily snake."
   --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

         This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind.
                                                  --South.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See {Cunning}.
        [1913 Webster]
    

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "wily":
      Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
      astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive,
      covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid,
      designing, devious, diplomatic, false, falsehearted, feline,
      finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect,
      ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready,
      resourceful, sagacious, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty,
      shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical,
      stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious,
      tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced,
      underhand, underhanded, vulpine, wary