Meanings of too wily in English

Hektor's much too wily and plugged-in to have let that happen.

But Bob was too wily to be put in the aggressive.

Reynard, however, proved too wily for his pursuers, and the hounds were at fault.

Do not attempt to fight them alone, they are too wily for your young age.

He was too wily to speak the English described in the advertisement of his peculiarities.

But Manuel was too wily to yield to a temptation merely because it was pleasurable.

They were too wily to be caught off guard and too determined to give up.

He's too wily for that, went on Major Ralston.

Tony was too wily to die so easily.

But he was too wily for that.

The wild dog had become almost a kind of local myth, seen everywhere, too wily to catch.

George had never caught anything, and the fish in the lagoon were much too wily to be trapped.

But the American financier Walter Robin, who lives in Monte Carlo organising multi-million pound deals, was too wily for them.

And this enemy, if enemy it was to be, was far too wily and dangerous to be granted any such advantages.

This was what Bob was hoping for; but the gun-man was too wily and experienced to allow himself within the captive's fettered reach.

The current approaches to fending off hackers are "unsustainable," Henry said, and computer criminals are too wily and skilled to be stopped.