Guile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
  • n. Obsolete A trick or stratagem.
  • v. Archaic To beguile; deceive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
  • n. deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
  • v. to deceive, to beguile
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
  • v. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Disposition to deceive or cheat; insidious artifice; craft; cunning.
  • n. A trick; a wile.
  • n. Synonyms Artfulness, subtlety, deception, trickery.
  • To deceive; beguile.
  • To disguise cunningly.
  • n. The fermented wort used by vinegar-makers.
  • n. A brewers' vat; a guilfat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Form
    beguile    guileless    guileful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    craft    artifice    duplicity    wile    deceit    treachery    deceitfulness    deception   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Argyll    Kyle    Marseille    Mikhail    Niall    Nile    Pyle    Theil    Weil    Weill   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deceit    duplicity    artifice    trickery    stratagem    meanness    treachery    perfidy    hypocrisy    avarice