GUILE meaning: Cunning, artful deception or trickery

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word guile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

guile: Merriam-Webster.com
guile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
guile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Guile, guile: Wordnik
guile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
guile: Wiktionary
guile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
guile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
guile: Infoplease Dictionary
Guile, guile: Dictionary.com
guile: Online Etymology Dictionary
guile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Guile (Street Fighter), Guile (programming language), Guile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Guile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
guile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
guile: Rhymezone
Guile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
guile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
guile: Free Dictionary
guile: Mnemonic Dictionary
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guile: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Guile (disambiguation), guile: Legal dictionary

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guile: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
▸ noun:  Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
▸ verb:  To deceive, beguile, bewile.
▸ noun:  A surname from French.
▸ noun:  Obsolete form of gold. [(uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.]
▸ noun:  Alternative form of gyle [The amount of beer brewed at a time.]

Opposite:

innocence, candor, artlessness

Types:

deception, trickery, cunning, wile, artifice, chicanery, more...

Phrases:

GNU Guile, opposite of guile, no guile, escape from through guile, guile smile, more...

Adjectives:

feminine, more, such, human, little, political, secret, covert, cunning, considerable, female

Colors:

emerald, jade, chartreuse, olive, lime, teal, aquamarine, cyan, turquoise, mint

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