Definitions for: Guile


[n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
[n] the quality of being crafty
[n] shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
i. 47.

To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton.


Guile, v. t. [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Synonyms: chicanery, craft, craftiness, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, foxiness, shenanigan, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness

See Also: astuteness, deceit, deception, disingenuousness, dissembling, dissimulation, dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, put-on, shrewdness

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