The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 Dictionary Definition: Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See {Guile}, n.]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 Dictionary Definition: 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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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 Dictionary Definition: 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
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) Dictionary Definition: GUILE
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WordNet (r) 2.0 Dictionary Definition: 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}]
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