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Significats de wiliness en anglès

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Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.

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      Ús de wiliness en anglès
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      Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own.
      St. Martin's Summer
      2
      The Chancellor is sometimes compared with Brown in his tactical wiliness.
      The Guardian
      3
      The job requires a rare combination of cultural nous, managerial capacity and bureaucratic wiliness.
      The Irish Times
      4
      No intrigue, no subterfuge, none of that wiliness that makes us love you so?
      Discord's apple
      5
      In Genesis it is the serpent who tempts Eve, in virtue of his natural wiliness.
      Milton
      6
      It was then, also, that 1 had some true inkling of their intelligence and wiliness.
      Fears Unnamed
      7
      The cupidity natural to mankind develops in it; so does diplomatic wiliness; also play of countenance.
      Beatrix
      8
      Quark considered for a moment before his expression changed, a shifting wiliness flickering in his eyes.
      Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
      9
      It was a kind of wiliness that Stubing knew would make Massino a tough investigative target.
      King of the godfathers: "big joey" massino and the fall of the b...
      10
      I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
      Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus
      11
      A wiliness in his thought.... "Do you feel better now?"
      Erik Dorn
      12
      They gave me great credit for wiliness.
      The Memoirs of Cleopatra
      13
      The danger was one which courage could not face, nor prudence make provision for, nor wiliness evade.
      Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2
      14
      What, in Powhatan's mind, of hesitation, wiliness, or good nature backed his daughter's plea is not known.
      Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
      15
      With hindsight, most biographers now feel that Law's wins were not a result of luck but of wiliness.
      Millionaire: the philanderer, gambler, and duelist who invented ...
      16
      Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet he retained his wildness and wiliness.
      The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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