Guile

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guile \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.
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           Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
                                                    i. 47.
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           To wage by force or guile eternal war.   --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See {Guile}, n.]
     To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
     --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  guile
       n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
            [syn: {craft}, {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {slyness},
             {wiliness}]
       2: the quality of being crafty [syn: {craftiness}, {deceitfulness}]
       3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
          money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {chicanery}, {chicane},
           {wile}, {shenanigan}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "guile":
     Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness,
     cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness,
     cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, dissemblance,
     dissimulation, duplicity, falseheartedness, falseness,
     fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship,
     hypocrisy, indirection, ingeniousness, insidiousness,
     inventiveness, one-upmanship, readiness, resourcefulness,
     satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness,
     slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth,
     stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness,
     surreptitiousness, treacherousness, trickiness, underhandedness,
     wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GUILE
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