wily

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• Viruses are wily, seeking out and infecting vulnerable hosts at all costs.

• Scientists viewed even this modest degree of protection against such a wily virus as an important milestone.

• The neutron’s lack of electric charge made it a particularly wily target.

• Everyone loves the idea of Bugs Bunny always being the wily underdog who can do whatever he wants and can win.

• As wily as his character when asked about it, Sheen proved himself to be a master of the media, feinting with a good sound bite.

• Rick Wilson, a top Florida GOP political consultant, describes Rivera as “a wily character ... [who has] run out of tricks.”

• He was wily and stylish enough to walk around the field scoring off defenders young enough to be his children.

• If you have enough cash and are sufficiently wily, you can live off the grid.

• “The mosquito is really wily, but the pathogen is even more wily,” she says.

• By every art known to the wily Porter did he try to mislead his pursuers; but they hung on to his trail like grim death.

• "Agreed," said Allcraft, almost before the wily Planner finished.

• While Cavalier traveled, Fendant, the more of the two, managed the business.