Word Meanings - WILINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WILINESS)

• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge

Related words: (words related to WILINESS)

• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• WILINESS
  The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• DODGER
  1. One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart. 2. A small handbill. 3. See Corndodger.
• DODGE
  1. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start. Milton. 2. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with
• CRAFTLESS
  Without craft or cunning. Helpless, craftless, and innocent people. Jer. Taylor.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• INTRIGUER
  One who intrigues.
• CRAFTINESS
  Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job. v. 13.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• GUILEFUL
  Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.
• INTRIGUE
  1. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. 2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
• CRAFTSMANSHIP
  The work of a craftsman.
• INTRIGUERY
  Arts or practice of intrigue.
• CRAFT
  A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. Prof. Wilson. Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. (more info) OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft
• GUILELESS
  Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• WITCRAFT
  1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic.
• PENCRAFT
  1. Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. 2. The art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S
• STARCRAFT
  Astrology. Tennyson.
• WITCHCRAFT
  1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak.
• STATECRAFT
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
• HANDCRAFT
  See HANDICRAFT