Guile \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.
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Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
i. 47.
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To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
guile
n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness,
wiliness]
2: the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness, deceitfulness]
3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
wile, shenanigan]
WordNet (r) 2.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "guile":
Italian hand, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
GUILE
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Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
chicane, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, foxiness, shenanigan, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness
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