Meaning of GUILE
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | chicanery, craft, craftiness, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, foxiness, shenanigan, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness |
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| | See Also: | | astuteness, deceit, deception, disingenuousness, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, put-on, shrewdness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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