Unwily

a. [UN-¹ 7.] Not wily, artful, or cunning; † simple, silly.

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a. 1300. Cursor M., 738. He ches a littel best Þe quilk es noght vnwiliest.

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c. 1475. Cath. Angl., 418/1. (A.), Vn Wyly; vbi fonde.

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1594. W. Percy, in Arber, Garner (1895), VI. 149. Unwily man! why couldst not keep thee there?

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1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xxiv. 63. The plaine husbandman, or the vnwily shoomaker.

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1612. W. Parkes, Curtaine-Dr. (1876), 12. The skins or cases that the vnwily serpents of our age haue cast.

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1846. Worcester (citing Eclectic Rev.).

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