guile
guile (g
l)
n.
1. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
2. Obsolete A trick or stratagem.
tr.v. guiled, guil·ing, guiles Archaic
To beguile; deceive.
[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wigle, divination, sorcery.]
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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wigle, divination, sorcery.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
| Noun | 1. | guile – shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness – intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
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| 2. | guile – the quality of being crafty
disingenuousness – the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
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| 3. | guile – the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence – something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
jugglery – artful trickery designed to achieve an end; “the senator’s tax program was mere jugglery”
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