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GUILE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)play

Synonyms:

chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("guile" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guile"):

dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

jugglery (artful trickery designed to achieve an end)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being craftyplay

Synonyms:

craftiness; deceitfulness; guile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("guile" is a kind of...):

disingenuousness (the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deceptionplay

Synonyms:

craft; craftiness; cunning; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("guile" is a kind of...):

astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness (intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings))

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