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guile
Meaning: sly or cunning intelligence
guile in a sentence
How guile is used in real sentences:
The fox uses guile where a wolf would use force.
The fox uses guile where a wolf would use force.
“Later commissions confronted disparate maps, based on unrelated surveys and incompatible reference points, while each nation blamed the other's guile for cunningly drawn charts that favored its claim.”
— from the passage Where the River Moved
Synonyms for guile
Other words for guile — cunning, craftiness, wiliness and artfulness — carry the same meaning.
- cunning
- craftiness
- wiliness
- artfulness
Antonyms of guile
Words that mean the opposite of guile:
- honesty
- candor
Where it comes from
From Old French guile 'deceit'
Memory hook
GUILE — beGUILe with sly tricks.