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Definition of Guile
1. Noun. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
Generic synonyms: Astuteness, Perspicaciousness, Perspicacity, Shrewdness
Derivative terms: Crafty, Crafty, Foxy, Sly, Wily
2. Noun. The quality of being crafty.
Generic synonyms: Disingenuousness
Derivative terms: Deceitful, Deceitful
3. Noun. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Generic synonyms: Deceit, Deception, Dissembling, Dissimulation
Specialized synonyms: Dupery, Fraud, Fraudulence, Hoax, Humbug, Put-on, Jugglery
Derivative terms: Chicane, Chicane, Trick, Wily
Definition of Guile
1. n. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
2. v. t. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Definition of Guile
1. Noun. Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. ¹
2. Noun. deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty ¹
3. Verb. to deceive, to beguile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Guile
1. to beguile [v GUILED, GUILING, GUILES] - See also: beguile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guile
Literary usage of Guile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"guile, guile ! guile, guile ! guile go ! guile go !' Another version is :— My
feet so black, And myself so white, Journey of ruin, That took me to Erin, ..."
2. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the by Lyman Chalkley, Mary Smith Lockwood (1912)
"guile at 10/ per 100, £1, 7, 8; to wild meat from John Vance, 2/6; to carcas venison
... guile, 4/6; to two horses, with driver, four days, at 4/6 per day, ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"strong beer or ale, or if the gauger shall find any beer, ale, or worts of the
same guile laid off, over and above the quantity so declared, ..."
4. Homilies on the Gospel According to St. John and His First Epistle by Augustine (1848)
"guile is fraud, acting a part. When a man conceals one thing in his ... And that
ye may know that this is guile, it is said in the Psalms, Lips of guile. ..."
5. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile ! He rounded
this water with his hand, deepened and clarified it in his thought, ..."
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