guile

Speech parts

1. guile - Noun

2. guile - Verb

3. Guile - Proper noun

Meaning

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wile chicane craft cunning trickery chicanery craftiness slyness shenanigan foxiness wiliness deceitfulness gael art slipperiness
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Antonyms

good help attention aid investment benefit
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Hypernyms

deception deceit dissembling perspicacity dissimulation shrewdness

Hyponyms

humbug fraud hoax fraudulence dupery jugglery

Phrases with the word

lack of guile armed guile without guile

Examples

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. Heinrich Heine

Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln

We shall perish by guile just as we slew. Aeschylus

La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience. Orson Scott Card

An innocent heart suspects no guile. Portuguese Proverb

A child's words have no guile. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

guildsman guildswoman guildwide guiled guileful guilefull