guile

guile
    n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
         [syn: {craft}, {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness},
         {guile}, {slyness}, {wiliness}]
    2: the quality of being crafty [syn: {craftiness},
       {deceitfulness}, {guile}]
    3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
       money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {chicanery}, {chicane},
       {guile}, {wile}, {shenanigan}]
    

Guile \Guile\, n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin,
   and the same word as E. wile. See {Wile}.]
   Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;
   treachery.
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         Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
                                                  i. 47.
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         To wage by force or guile eternal war.   --Milton.
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Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See {Guile}, n.]
   To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "guile":
      Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness,
      cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness,
      cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, dissemblance,
      dissimulation, duplicity, falseheartedness, falseness,
      fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship,
      hypocrisy, indirection, ingeniousness, insidiousness,
      inventiveness, one-upmanship, readiness, resourcefulness,
      satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness,
      slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth,
      stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness,
      surreptitiousness, treacherousness, trickiness, underhandedness,
      wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit