Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
- n. Obsolete A trick or stratagem.
- v. Archaic To beguile; deceive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Disposition to deceive or cheat; insidious artifice; craft; cunning.
- n. A trick; a wile.
- n. Synonyms Artfulness, subtlety, deception, trickery.
- To deceive; beguile.
- To disguise cunningly.
- n. The fermented wort used by vinegar-makers.
- n. A brewers' vat; a guilfat.
Wiktionary
- n. Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- n. deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
- n. trickery; deception
- v. to deceive, to beguile
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
- v. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- n. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- n. the quality of being crafty
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English wigle, divination, sorcery.
Examples
“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.”
“They have inherited their guile from the Dodo side of the family.”
“Stained freshly? have your hearts in guile grown old?”
“He seems totally lacking in guile, and so genuine in his liberalism that one almost suspects him, as somebody said long ago of the British Labour party, of allowing his bleeding heart to go to his bloody head.”
“With great simplicity and godly sincerity: Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile, v. 3.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 4”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“The man was totally without guile, which is why he was so refreshing to a Machiavellian schemer like Halcon.”
“Time was ineffably precious -- there was every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible, after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on fire.”
Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
“If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“I spent the week getting sore throats after my long teaching days never talk for 8 hours straight and making Gollum noises as a mnemonic device to help kids remember the word "guile".”
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