Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
WILY
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
(adjective) marked by skill in deception; “cunning men often pass for wise”; “deep political machinations”; “a foxy scheme”; “a slick evasive answer”; “sly as a fox”; “tricky Dick”; “a wily old attorney”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)
Sly, cunning, full of tricks
Synonyms
• See also wily
Source: Wiktionary
Wil"y, a. [Compar. Wilier; superl. Wiliest.] Etym: [From Wile.]
Definition: Full of wiles, tricks, or stratagems; using craft or stratagem to accomplish a purpose; mischievously artful; subtle. "Wily and wise." Chaucer. "The wily snake." Milton. This false, wily, doubling disposition of mind. South.
Syn.
– Cunning; artful; sly; crafty. See Cunning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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