[syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Guile \Guile\, n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin,
and the same word as E. wile. See Wile.]
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;
treachery.
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Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
i. 47.
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To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]
To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
guile
n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness,
guile, slyness, wiliness]
2: the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness,
deceitfulness, guile]
3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
guile, wile, shenanigan]