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Meanings of guileful in inglês

Marked by skill in deception.

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Usage of guileful in inglês
1
The profound sagacity of Gloucester's guileful counsel was then unanimously recognized.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 11
2
The people of Antioch like making a noise, and they are guileful flatterers.
Julian
3
So much for my guileful attempt to bypass his defenses.
Mortal Allies
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Both employ guileless heroes, set loose in a guileful world.
The Guardian
5
He had been soundly schooled by his guileful Sicilian mother.
The Sea-Hawk
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Except to jump, to drown in the vast guileful sky.
The Reality Dysfunction
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The Elector enraged, and would have taken action, but that the guileful Countess curbed him.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series
8
Most editors alter the text to mean "He hath slain these guileful ones."
The Electra of Euripides / Translated into English rhyming verse
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In a most guileful way, he conquered a Frankish tribe which occupied the city of Tongres.
Julian
10
And observe: not only was the secret kept, the story was told with really guileful craftsmanship.
Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays
11
Jacqueline, swift and guileful, was instantly beside her.
Max
12
In fact, a more slippery or guileful egg was never yet devised by nature's unconscious ingenuity.
Science in Arcady
13
You have a new master, a guileful man.
Philoktetes
14
Wo unto thee if thou hast dealt deceitfully with us, or betrayed us with guileful words.'
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 / Volu...
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If she had acknowledged recognizing Connell she had done it in a guileful manner hidden from Faith.
Frontier courtship
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These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
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