Definition of guile Guile
/gajˈl/ - [gayl] - guile
We found 10 definitions of guile from 5 different sources.
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What does guile mean?
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| guile - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | ||
| trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan | ||
| dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, deception the act of deceiving | ||
| dupery, hoax, fraud, fraudulence, humbug, put-on something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | ||
| guile - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | ||
| craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness | ||
| perspicaciousness, shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | ||
| guile - the quality of being crafty | ||
| craftiness, deceitfulness | ||
| disingenuousness the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | ||
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Wiktionary 
- guile (Noun)
astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. - guile (Noun)
deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. - guile (Verb)
To deceive, to beguile.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- guile (n.)
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. - guile (n.)
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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guile
gīl, n. wile, jugglery: cunning: deceit.—v.t. (Spens.) to beguile.—p.adj. Guiled, armed with deceit: treacherous.—adj. Guile′ful, crafty: deceitful.—adv. Guile′fully.—n. Guile′fulness.—adj. Guile′less, without deceit: artless.—adv. Guile′lessly.—ns. Guile′lessness; Guil′er (Spens.), a deceiver. [O. Fr. guile, deceit; from a Teut. root, as in A.S. wíl, Ice. vel, a trick.]
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🔤- guile, noun, singular of guiles.
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