"character" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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