Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Wily; cunning: Possessing or showing cleverness, craftiness, and a talent for scheming or trickery, often to achieve one's own ends. It implies a shrewd, calculating, and sometimes deceitful intelligence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Hắn là một kẻ đa mưu và nguy hiểm. (He is a wily and dangerous individual.)
  • Đối thủ đa mưu đó luôn có những kế hoạch phức tạp. (That cunning opponent always has complex plans.)
  • Bà ta nổi tiếng là đa mưu túc trí trong giới kinh doanh. (She is famous for being shrewd and resourceful in the business world.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "đa mưu" often carries a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of honesty or scruples in one's cleverness. It is more about deceptive scheming than about innocent cleverness.
• It can be used to describe characters in stories, political strategists, or clever adversaries.

Variants and Related Words

• Mưu mô (n): scheme, plot. Often used in a negative sense.
  • Hắn đầy mưu mô. (He is full of schemes.)
• Quỷ quyệt (adj): devilishly cunning, crafty. A stronger, more negative synonym.
• Xảo quyệt (adj): deceitfully cunning, sly.

Synonyms

• Cunning: Skilled in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.
• Wily: Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully.
• Shrewd: Having or showing sharp powers of judgment; can be positive or negative, but often astute.
• Crafty: Clever at achieving one's aims by indirect or deceitful methods.
• Scheming: Given to making secret or underhand plans.

Antonyms

• Thật thà (adj): honest, straightforward.
• Ngay thẳng (adj): upright, righteous.
• Chân thành (adj): sincere, genuine.

Related Idioms

• While "đa mưu" itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, it relates to the concept of:
  • Mưu sâu kế hiểm: Deep schemes and dangerous plots. Describes extremely cunning and treacherous plans.

    • Kẻ thù dùng những mưu sâu kế hiểm. (The enemy used deep and dangerous schemes.)

adj

1. wily; cunning