# wiliness

**Pronunciation:** WILINESS

**CEFR level:** B1

**Part of speech:** noun

## Meaning

Wiliness means deceitful cleverness or shrewdness.

## Examples

- The article uses wiliness to mean deceitful cleverness or shrewdness.
- The teacher asked students to find wiliness in the reading.
- Check the words around wiliness to choose the right meaning.

## Common patterns

- a/the wiliness — Use an article when the noun is countable in context. — The article mentioned a wiliness.
- wiliness in context — Use surrounding words to choose the correct sense. — We checked wiliness in context before translating it.

## Collocations

- wiliness example — The teacher gave a wiliness example.
- wiliness meaning — We checked the wiliness meaning before moving on.

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