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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
behold an israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --john
i. 47.
1913 webster
to wage by force or guile eternal war. --milton.
1913 webster
see also:
wile
- [2] : 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.
1913 webster
see also:
guile
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
craft craftiness cunning foxiness slyness wiliness
deceitfulness trickery chicanery chicane wile
shenanigan
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [5] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
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