Definition of "guile" []

• Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit. (noun)
• Obsolete A trick or stratagem. (noun)
• Archaic To beguile; deceive. (verb-transitive)

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• "Without his intending to, for he is a man wholly lacking in guile, Paul becomes a human, very vulnerable wedge between the two women, testing their love to the limits."
• "They have inherited their guile from the Dodo side of the family."
• "Stained freshly? have your hearts in guile grown old?"