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guile

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
guile /gʌɪl/

▶noun sly or cunning intelligence.

– derivatives
guileful adjective,
guilefully adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr., prob. from ON; cf. wile.

'guile' also found in these Oxford entries:

artless - beguile - evade - fallacy

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