About The Word Guile
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Guile
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What's The Definition Of Guile?
[n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
[n] the quality of being crafty [n] shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception Synonyms | Synonyms for Guile: chicanery | craft | craftiness | craftiness | cunning | deceitfulness | foxiness | shenanigan | slyness | trickery | wile | wiliness Related Terms | Find terms related to Guile: acuteness | art | artfulness | artifice | astuteness | cageyness | callidity | canniness | cleverness | craft | craftiness | cunning | cunningness | deceit | deceitfulness | dissemblance | dissimulation | duplicity | falseheartedness | falseness | fine Italian hand | finesse | foxiness | furtiveness | gamesmanship | hypocrisy | indirection | ingeniousness | insidiousness | inventiveness | Italian hand | one-upmanship | readiness | resourcefulness | satanic cunning | sharpness | shiftiness | shrewdness | slipperiness | slyness | sneak attack | sneakiness | sophistry | stealth | stealthiness | subtilty | subtleness | subtlety | suppleness | surreptitiousness | treacherousness | trickiness | underhandedness | wariness | wiles | wiliness | wit See Also | astuteness | deceit | deception | disingenuousness | dissembling | dissimulation | dupery | fraud | fraudulence | hoax | humbug | jugglery | perspicaciousness | perspicacity | put-on | shrewdness Guile In Webster's Dictionary \Guile\, n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin,
and the same word as E. wile. See {Wile}.]
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;
treachery.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
i. 47.
To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton.
\Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See {Guile}, n.] To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] --Spenser. |
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