Guile

Word GUILE
Character 5
Hyphenation guile
Pronunciations /ɡaɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Guile"

What do we mean by guile?

Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit. noun

A trick or stratagem. noun

To beguile; deceive. transitive verb

To deceive; beguile.

To disguise cunningly.

The fermented wort used by vinegar-makers. noun

A brewers' vat; a guilfat. noun

Disposition to deceive or cheat; insidious artifice; craft; cunning. noun

A trick; a wile. noun

Synonyms Artfulness, subtlety, deception, trickery. noun

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. noun

To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. transitive verb

Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. noun

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty noun

To deceive, to beguile verb

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) noun

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception noun

The quality of being crafty noun

Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Guile

The word "guile" in example sentences

Without his intending to, for he is a man wholly lacking in guile, Paul becomes a human, very vulnerable wedge between the two women, testing their love to the limits. ❋ Philip French (2010)

They have inherited their guile from the Dodo side of the family. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Stained freshly? have your hearts in guile grown old? ❋ Unknown (1997)

He seems totally lacking in guile, and so genuine in his liberalism that one almost suspects him, as somebody said long ago of the British Labour party, of allowing his bleeding heart to go to his bloody head. ❋ Unknown (1968)

With great simplicity and godly sincerity: Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile, v. 3. ❋ Unknown (1721)

3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4 ❋ Unknown (1721)

The man was totally without guile, which is why he was so refreshing to a Machiavellian schemer like Halcon. ❋ CLIVE CUSSLER (2000)

Time was ineffably precious -- there was every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible, after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on fire. ❋ Unknown (1864)

If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps." ❋ Unknown (1721)

I spent the week getting sore throats after my long teaching days never talk for 8 hours straight and making Gollum noises as a mnemonic device to help kids remember the word "guile". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reply Obj. 1: Just as craftiness is taken properly in a bad sense, and improperly in a good sense, so too is guile which is the execution of craftiness. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Those limitations which are common to all humanity and that guile which is peculiar to the Chinese veiled the fact from their ken that the deserted wharf, in whose shelter they lay, was at once the roof and the gateway of Sin Sin Wa's receiving office! ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

'Infinitely better: and I like your "guile," sir: But wait and tell me what you think of him after tossing him his meat for a certain number of years. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

City mounted an assault which owed more to hopeful desperation than any kind of guile, and - irony of ironies - drew level with a goal straight out of the Stoke handbook. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Alex McLeish desperate to add 'guile' to his attacking force ❋ Stuart James (2010)

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