Guile

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  • noun. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
  • noun. A trick or stratagem.
  • transitive verb. To beguile; deceive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deceive; beguile.
  • To disguise cunningly.
  • noun. The fermented wort used by vinegar-makers.
  • noun. A brewers' vat; a guilfat.
  • noun. Disposition to deceive or cheat; insidious artifice; craft; cunning.
  • noun. A trick; a wile.
  • noun. Synonyms Artfulness, subtlety, deception, trickery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
  • transitive verb. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
  • noun. deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
  • verb. to deceive, to beguile
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • noun. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  • noun. the quality of being crafty
  • Word Usage
    "Without his intending to, for he is a man wholly lacking in guile, Paul becomes a human, very vulnerable wedge between the two women, testing their love to the limits."
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