Guile
[gaɪl] or [ɡaɪl]
Definition
(n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
(n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Checker: Nellie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cunning, craft, subtlety, artfulness, artifice, duplicity, deceit, deception, trickery, fraud.
Typist: Tabitha
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Craft, treachery, deceit, cunning, insidiousness, artifice, fraud, hypocrisy,trickery
ANT:Honesty, simplicity, frankness, generosity, candor, sincerity
Edited by Linda
Definition
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.
Editor: Yvonne
Examples
- Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The red--(Well then, Polly, the _fair_) hair, the tongue of guile, and brain of wile, are all come down by inheritance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Sam