wily

Debt is a trap laid by the wily for the foolish.

It makes the wily nilly use/patches from 3rd parties so much easier.

If you hunt them for sport from childhood, the survivors get wily indeed.

Pat yourselves on the back you wily "engineers".

Andre Miller is a basketball player that most would say fits the archetype of "wily veteran" rather than "primadonna".

Assume that the boards are chosen by some kind of wily, malevolent demon with an obsessive desire to embed tricky 3SAT problems in everything.

Just because a bear doesn't have responsibility doesn't mean we can shoot it wily-nily, there has to be some justification such as in the example you mention.

If the rule is "never trust anybody who made one prediction that, with hindsight, turns out to be wrong" then you're basically saying, "only trust people too wily to give hard predictions.

He's a wily fellow-- he rarely pops up when you're doing local development, but he has this nasty habit of showing up in production whenever you start hitting a decent load.

Actually, the exact point of the article would be that Russia, under Putin's wily leadership, has gotten much better about invading using non-physical force, or at least highly obscured physical force.

Somehow, just in the last decade, home buyers became so wily and conniving that they were able to trick all the professionals who's full time job it is to think about these things and have all the inside knowledge, resources, connections, etc?

If their descendants weren't strong or persuasive or wily enough to defend the land claim through ordinary means, they started using supernatural claims, based on the idea that the ancestor still existed and could enforce those claims supernaturally.