wiliest

Italian translation: più scaltre/accorte

07:40 Jun 23, 2017

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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / Rinascimento, Girolamo Cardano medico e astrologo

English term or phrase: wiliest

So, when he eventually casts the horoscope, Jerome tells the Archbishop some – but not all – of what he sees in the charts. His Grace, he says, will find happiness – but only through worry and danger. There is no immediate cause for concern, but he might find his life in peril in two years time (in 1554) and again in 1560.
Much like the wiliest of weather forecasts, the prediction couldn’t ever be proved wrong, but it is certainly not an accurate depiction of future events as Jerome saw them. That is clear now, in 1570, when Jerome’s heart tells him Hamilton is already dead, and cannot help him out of this prison cell.

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Local time: 04:15

Italian translation:più scaltre/accorte

Explanation:
Una resa alternativa: con una connotazione più positiva che negativa...

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Cinzia Romiti
Italy
Local time: 04:15

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4 +1

più subdole

Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.

3 +2

le più astute/furbe

Cora Annoni

3 +1

più scaltre/accorte

Cinzia Romiti

più ingegnosa / ben congegnata

Mariagrazia Centanni

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7 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

più subdole

Explanation:
much like the wiliest of weather forecasts = come le previsioni meteo più subdole ...... ambigue / false / ingannevoli, etc.

subdolo /'subdolo/ agg. [dal lat. subdŏlus, der. di dolus "inganno", col pref. sub- "sotto"]. -
1. [di persona o comportamento e sim., che tende a dissimulare allo scopo di trarre in inganno e di conseguire un fine nascosto: una s. domanda; una persona s.] ≈ ambiguo, falso, infido, ingannatore, ingannevole, ipocrita, strisciante, (lett.) surrettizio, untuoso, (fam.) viscido. ↔ affidabile, fidato, leale, schietto, sincero.
2. (estens.) [di luogo, condizione e sim., che nasconde un pericolo, ecc.] ≈ insidioso, malfido, pericoloso, scivoloso. ↔ fidato, sicuro, tranquillo.
http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/subdolo_Sinonimi-e-Contra...

Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
Austria
Local time: 04:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in category: 78

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

le più astute/furbe

Explanation:
proposta

Cora Annoni
Local time: 04:15
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 31

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

più scaltre/accorte

Explanation:
Una resa alternativa: con una connotazione più positiva che negativa...

Cinzia Romiti
Italy
Local time: 04:15
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 28

15 hrs confidence:

più ingegnosa / ben congegnata

Explanation:
"Proprio come le più ben congegnate previsioni del tempo ..."

Reference: http://dizionari.repubblica.it/Inglese-Italiano/W/wily.php?l...

Mariagrazia Centanni
Italy
Local time: 04:15
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in category: 16

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