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Meanings of guile in English
Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
Synonyms
Examples for "craft"
Examples for "craft"
1
A general purpose military small craft capable of lifting approximately 100 personnel.
2
It's a great new platform that I can use for my craft.
3
With an 11 per cent increase, craft workers were the largest beneficiaries.
4
Some comics take weeks, months or even years to craft their set.
5
Letvin said the NIST would work with experts to craft stronger standards.
1
This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say cunning.
2
Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3
There was no cunning in the speech: it was the simple truth.
4
Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and cunning.
5
Though cunning in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
1
It became the slyness of the watching animal, that feels the enemy.
2
He said this without malice or slyness or any emotion at all.
3
And Lecacheur replied, with a look of Normandy slyness in his eyes:
4
There was more slyness in it than ever his beard could hide.
5
Beauchamp was not insensible to the slyness of the poke at him.
1
For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
2
His craftiness almost redeemed a fetid Ajax front-line -but not quite.
3
Objection 1: It would seem that craftiness is not a special sin.
4
Objection 1: It would seem that fraud does not pertain to craftiness.
5
The invaders had planned with a craftiness and patience that deserved success.
1
The deceitfulness of sin is not the least of its tragical consequences.
2
Thee deals with criminals and knows the deceitfulness of our human hearts.
3
His cruelty and deceitfulness were faults common to all Eastern despots.
4
Your deceitfulness, laziness, lust, deafness, disability, and disease are not the real you.
5
We were dismayed by his deceitfulness-nay ,bewilderedwere all things visible and invisible.
1
Garnache went about sounding the man with a wiliness peculiarly his own.
2
The Chancellor is sometimes compared with Brown in his tactical wiliness.
3
The job requires a rare combination of cultural nous, managerial capacity and bureaucratic wiliness.
4
No intrigue, no subterfuge, none of that wiliness that makes us love you so?
5
In Genesis it is the serpent who tempts Eve, in virtue of his natural wiliness.
1
Some of the foxiness must be taken out of it.
2
W. C. Barry, of Rochester, spoke highly of the Niagara, and its slight foxiness would be no objection to those who like that peculiarity.
3
Plus, everyone in the cast (which also includes Alicia Vikander) wears foxy clothes, gives foxy glances, and just luxuriates in the movie's general foxiness.
Usage of guile in English
1
So he took the serpent for the workshop of his own guile.
2
There was no guile, no malevolence in the working of the city.
3
It was incapable of guile, and perhaps that gave him an advantage.
4
Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile, Psal.
5
Between them they resolved to take the place by strategy and guile.
6
She says what she feels, without a shred of guile or cunning.
7
Jennifer studied her, trying to find any sign of guile or deceit.
8
Finding that he had it, he smiled with his peculiar oriental guile.
9
More and more angry, the brothers resolved to kill Lelsing by guile.
10
She'd learned enough from him to recognize his circumspection and his guile.
11
Macron has shown grit and guile, but can he go the distance?
12
So suspecting no guile they departed and troubled his household no more.
13
I remarked, seemingly without guile, although my ears tingled for the legend
14
It is also the one about the triumph of innocence over guile.
15
With guile he strove to be talkative about matters of no consequence.
16
I will love you with true heart, without malice and without guile.
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Translations for guile
Catalan
Guile through the time
Guile across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common