Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a guileful manner; deceitfully; artfully.

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  • adverb In a guileful manner.

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Examples

  • He declined, saying guilefully, "Barack and I are buddies." and hurried on to greet another volunteer.

    Obama Supporters Engage In 50 State Post-Election Advocacy Ruby Reid 2010

  • He declined, saying guilefully, "Barack and I are buddies." and hurried on to greet another volunteer.

    Ruby Reid: Obama Supporters Engage In 50 State Post-Election Advocacy Ruby Reid 2010

  • He declined, saying guilefully, "Barack and I are buddies." and hurried on to greet another volunteer.

    Ruby Reid: Obama Supporters Engage In 50 State Post-Election Advocacy 2010

  • Therefore, for the last Empire on earth to survive it must guilefully con its citizens into believing something other than the facts about their woeful status of vast economic inequality (as Thomas Frank documented about Kansans).

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

  • A star who wants to remain "in the pack" plays her part guilefully.

    Richard Laermer: Why Gossip Matters So Much It Hurts 2009

  • He declined, saying guilefully, "Barack and I are buddies." and hurried on to greet another volunteer.

    Ruby Reid: Obama Supporters Engage In 50 State Post-Election Advocacy 2009

  • “And,” says she, “he is minded to do guilefully by you; wherefore I bid you get ye gone back again to your own land, and gather together the mightiest power ye may, and then come back hither and avenge you; neither go ye now to your undoing, for ye shall surely fail not to fall by his wiles if ye turn not on him even as I bid you.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Scarce a keen reader of runes art thou, if thou deemest thou hast beheld in them the bidding of thy sister to this journey: lo, I read them the runes, and had marvel of so wise a woman as Gudrun is, that she should have miscut them; but that which lieth underneath beareth your bane with it, — yea, either she lacked a letter, or others have dealt guilefully with the runes.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Not yet done making her its goat, Fate had finally led her here, to the guilefully misnamed White Rose, where the number of evil-looking—and far more evil-smelling—refugees from the storm swelled its cramped quarters.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

  • Not yet done making her its goat, Fate had finally led her here, to the guilefully misnamed White Rose, where the number of evil-looking—and far more evil-smelling—refugees from the storm swelled its cramped quarters.

    My Seduction Connie Brockway 2004

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