guile English

Meaning guile meaning

What does guile mean?

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guile Noun

— If you have guile, then you have a smart and cunning nature to you. A person with guile is crafty, quick witted, and usually sly.

guile

— noun (= craftiness) the quality of being crafty

— noun (= trickery) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

— noun (= craft) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

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guile English » English

deceit

cunning

craft

trickery

fraud

craftiness

slyness

wile

deception

wiliness

duplicity

dissimulation

cheating

trick

foxiness

deceitfulness

chicanery

artifice

shenanigan

resourcefulness

perfidy

hypocrisy

falsehood

fallacy

delusion

chicane

beguilement

wiles

trickishness

trickiness

treachery

treacherousness

tergiversation

swindling

swindle

spoof

shrewdness

shame

sham

serpentine wisdom

secrecy

ruse

play-acting

jugglery

jiggery pokery

intrigue

imposture

imposition

hustle

humbuggery