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[syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Guileful \Guile"ful\, a.
Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or
treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. --
Guile"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
guileful
adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a
wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy,
foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy,
tricky, wily]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "guileful":
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive,
covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid,
designing, devious, diplomatic, duplicitous, false, falsehearted,
feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, indirect, ingenious,
insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful,
scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly,
smooth, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic,
subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous,
trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded,
vulpine, wary, wily