Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being guileful; deceitfulness.
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- noun The quality of being
guileful ;cunning ordeceit .
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Examples
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The chief virtue is the man's guilefulness as a performer.
City Light DeMott, Benjamin 1964
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This deep guilefulness was hard to detect, from such recesses of cunning did it spring; because she dissembled her longing for a change of wedlock under a show of aspiration for freedom.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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For she guessed little of Swanhild's guilefulness, nor of the coldness of her heart to all save Eric; nor of how this was the only joy left to her: to make a sport of men and put them to grief and shame.
Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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On the other hand, one can also feel bemused dismay at how his guilefulness belies his tender years on occasion.
Irish Blogs No Ordinary Fool 2010
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On the other hand, one can also feel bemused dismay at how his guilefulness belies his tender years on occasion.
Irish Blogs No Ordinary Fool 2010
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But it's not always possible to triumph through guilefulness.
unknown title 2009
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