Wiley

Like a fox

Wiley is a given name, typically masculine, sometimes a surname.

As a spelling variant of wily, it occasionally appears meaning cunning or crafty, though this use is nonstandard.

Wiley Coyote from the Warner Bros. cartoons plays on both the name and the adjective. (Lowercase wily is the standard spelling for the adjective.)

surname

publisher

Company releasing books

Blackwell · scientific · publishing · Hoboken · scholarly · imprint · research · Sons · periodicals · education

cunning

crafty

Cleverly deceptive

  • slyCleverly deceptive
  • shrewdPractically clever, perceptive
  • cleverShowing mental quickness

devious · foxy · artful · scheming · calculating · resourceful · tricky · astute · conniving · manipulative

name

coyote

Wild North American canid

  • AcmeFictional supplier of backfiring contraptions
  • Road RunnerSwift blue bird
  • cartoonAnimated or humorous illustration

Looney Tunes · chase · schemes · traps · anvil · dynamite · cliff · backfire · persistence · failure

Categories
Opposites
cunning/craftiness

Wileynaive

Innocently unsuspecting

guileless · artless · ingenuous · straightforward · honest

sophistication/experience

Wileyinnocent

Free from moral wrong

unworldly · green · inexperienced · gullible · credulous

Phrases
Family

wily, wiles, wile, wiliness

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G