Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Deceit; artifice.

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  • verb Present participle of guile.

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Examples

  • You can know all these things about love, yet it remains irresistible, as guiling as the floating arms of long sleep.

    the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

  • Where Sin spreads still her guiling, glitt'ring mesh.

    The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

  • And her guiling laughter will echo through the great, wind-winnowed space.

    The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916

  • "Patient I seemed, yet Patience shown by me * Was but self-guiling till thy sight I see:

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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