Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Deceit; artifice.
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- verb Present participle of
guile .
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Examples
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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
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Where Sin spreads still her guiling, glitt'ring mesh.
The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner
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And her guiling laughter will echo through the great, wind-winnowed space.
The Watchman and Other Poems Lucy Maud 1916
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"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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