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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John i. 47. [1913 Webster] To wage by force or guile eternal war. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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]