Definition of guile - WordReference.com Dictionary

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guile
A	noun
	1	trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
			the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚wrongdoing; wrongful conduct; misconduct; actus reus ╚falsification; misrepresentaation ╚deception; deceit; dissembling; dissimulation ╚trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan ╚jugglery ╚fraud; fraudulence; dupery; hoax; humbug; put-on
	2	craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
			the quality of being crafty
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚quality ╚immorality ╚unrighteousness ╚dishonesty ╚disingenuousness ╚craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
	3	craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
			shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
		Category Tree: psychological feature ╚cognition; knowledge; noesis ╚ability; power ╚intelligence ╚shrewdness; astuteness; perspicacity; perspicaciousness ╚craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

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