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Definition of wiliness : The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.

Synonyms:

deceptiveness, chicane, chicanery, caginess, cozenage, double-dealing, deceitfulness, shenanigan, crookery, deception, guilefulness, dissembling, fakery, dupery, sneakiness, craftsmanship, means, fraud, honest, trade, dissimulation, artifice, duplicity, workmanship, crookedness, wile, dishonesty, cheating, craft, trickery

slipperiness, sly, art, deviousness, skill, cunning, slickness, mastery, guile, snakiness, ingenuity, subtlety, wariness, smoothness

drollness, inventiveness, comedy, subtleness, cunningness, humor, astuteness, quickness, cleverness, wit, adroitness, foxiness, brilliance, canniness, trickiness, sharpness, facility, urbanity, intellect, scintillation, finesse, scurrility, ingeniousness, artfulness, deftness, craftiness, shrewdness, slyness, resourcefulness, irony, sophistry

insight, foresight, intuition, instinct

Usage examples:

• Yet, at the same time, they could not help admiring the wiliness which the enemy had shown in thus reserving his fire. - "A Tale of the Summer Holidays", G. Mockler.
• Thy task is then to induce him to make an attempt on the head of Shagpat in all wiliness, as he and thou think well to devise. - "The Shaving of Shagpat, Complete", George Meredith.
• Love had already given strength and wiliness to the countess. - "Maitre Cornelius", Honore de Balzac.