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Meanings of guile in English
Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
Synonyms
Examples for "trickery"
Examples for "trickery"
1
The result is teasingly brilliant and prefigures some of postmodernism's best trickery.
2
His trickery and pace on the flank caused Motherwell problems all game.
3
The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
4
Beatrice studied the document, and in silence canvassed the possibilities of trickery.
5
This makes the cultivation of the love of trickery the more dangerous.
1
Every wile known to beauty had been employed in a hundred sieges.
2
He possessed a voice that could wile a bird off a bought.
3
You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
4
Beware Edward's false smile, beware Clarence's fickle faith, beware Gloucester's inscrutable wile!
5
I suppose that he indulged in a flirtation to wile away the time.
1
The suit proceeded with all the languor and chicanery of the period.
2
It was six weeks of chicanery, drinking, prostitution, deal-making, vote-peddling, and corruption.
3
The organized workers not only distrust the politician but detest political chicanery.
4
Or would you say that subtlety, chicanery, trickery, were here at work?
5
Else why this double dealing, this deceit, this chicanery, these hollow professions?
1
The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
2
But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
3
You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane.
4
Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane.
5
Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed.
1
That shenanigan was duly hit with a fine from the Federal Communications Commission.
2
Nor did they ever catch anybody else involved in the shenanigan.
3
The change to the euro will be difficult enough without such shenanigans.
4
Forget about the unholy shenanigans up in Omagh a few weeks ago.
5
Welch, however, sometimes goes a bit overboard with the shenanigans and mugging.
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