Carlo Gambino, a wily character with designs on the leadership himself, maneuvered himself into position as underboss.

As Gump stumbles into successes that wilier characters could never approach, his success is always tied to his lack of intellect.

We ended up with one stalk of asparagus, an avocado, cauliflower, tomatoes, peppers and one wily little character got sugarcane.

Still, that Sparks is a wily character.

He has also been described as a "wily and quick-witted character".

"You're dealing with a very wily and resourceful character," said Peter Takirambudde, head of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch in New York.

But it's likely that Becky Sharp - one of the wiliest characters in English literature - will be too much for any actress, even the estimable Ms. Witherspoon.

Ms. Sheedy's haunting, wily character is visibly at war with herself even as she flirts with Ms. Mitchell's pretty young thing.

But the old xenologist was not naive--seemed, in fact, to be one of the wiliest characters Flandry had ever collided with--and might at any time do something unforeseeable.

In the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Moko is a wily character and grandfather of the heroic Ngaru.