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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of guile; deceitfully or treacherously cunning.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of guile; deceitful; artful; wily; cunning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.

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  • adjective Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by skill in deception

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Examples

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating bigotry, wrote in a recent report that " ... certain Americans, who have been prodded into paranoia by clever activists, opportunistic politicians and guileful media players, seem downright eager to deny Muslims the guarantees of religious freedom and the presumption of innocence."

    Parvez Ahmed: Muslims In America At The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11 Parvez Ahmed 2011

  • First, the Chamber of Commerce is really not the nice little local volunteer organization of pro-small business chambers that most people think it is, but rather covertly functions as a guileful “Chamber of EMPIRE”.

    Think Progress » Kudlow: ‘The Chamber Of Commerce Is A Very Negative Force,’ ‘Absolutely Negative And Absolutely Wrong’ 2010

  • The reforms fade as he speaks of the dark designs of regional foes, while his guileful chief coalition partner, the burly, corruption-shadowed grand vizier, a rival for the political affection of the aristocracy, exploits long-simmering hatreds to push for a broad range of curbs on democratic freedoms.

    Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun Bradley Burston 2011

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating bigotry, wrote in a recent report that " ... certain Americans, who have been prodded into paranoia by clever activists, opportunistic politicians and guileful media players, seem downright eager to deny Muslims the guarantees of religious freedom and the presumption of innocence."

    Parvez Ahmed: Muslims In America At The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11 Parvez Ahmed 2011

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to combating bigotry, wrote in a recent report that " ... certain Americans, who have been prodded into paranoia by clever activists, opportunistic politicians and guileful media players, seem downright eager to deny Muslims the guarantees of religious freedom and the presumption of innocence."

    Parvez Ahmed: Muslims In America At The 10th Anniversary Of 9/11 Parvez Ahmed 2011

  • Would the guileful Sri Lankan bowler? the greatest Asian sportsman of all time, perhaps? cap his final game by dismissing an unprecedented, still almost unbelievable, 800th test match victim?

    Muttiah Muralitharan: a real sporting king in a world of unworthy princes 2010

  • Lemony Snicket: These tales of the Baudelaire orphans outwitting multiple death threats and a gaggle of guileful guardians, with meta-commentary by an unnamed author are ... well they're definitely not intended as an ingenious snare for the use of pedophiles, I'll tell you that.

    Jilly Gagnon: The Moral of the Story Is... 2009

  • Empire must be more guileful --- and thus the massive unjust inequality of

    OpEdNews - Diary: Alfred P. Sloan's Monetization of ���Democracy' 2009

  • Any Empire, and particularly this guileful post-modern ruling-elite corporate/financial Empire which controls our country behind the facade of its two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy, is entirely focused on unjustified hierarchy, inequality, and absolute power over the political-economics of a society --- and the world, if they can keep getting away with it.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Alfred P. Sloan's Monetization of ���Democracy' 2009

  • I would point to Francis Fukuyama's insightful "The End of History", which was only been flawed by assuming that the US was a real democracy --- and not a very subtle, guileful ruling-elite 'corporate financial Empire' disguising itself behind the facade of this two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy.

    Coming Soon-- Riots in America? 2009

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