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