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How to pronounce guile in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms craftiness, deceitfulness
Type of disingenuousness
Type Words
Synonyms chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile
Type of dissimulation, dissembling, deceit, deception
Has types hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on, dupery, fraud, fraudulence
Type Words
Synonyms craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness
Type of astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness

Examples of guile

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It was a breathtaking show of guile, as bald-faced and firm-jawed as lying gets.
From the businessweek.com
That's tough turf, so Obama had to combine book smarts with guile, which he did.
From the bostonherald.com
To him, guile is a synonym for cowardice, and patience the deadliest of virtues.
From the time.com
They spoke of his quick temper, but that was entirely free from malice or guile.
From the en.wikipedia.org
VanLeur and Winkelman are left-handers who tend to rely more on guile than speed.
From the omaha.com
Australia struggle physically to move the ball around and try to rely on guile.
From the nzherald.co.nz
So more slow ball and variation guile is required and some clever field sets too.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Saints'extraordinary power and inexperience vs Leinster's guile and experience.
From the guardian.co.uk
The footage shows Zinda as histrionic, without guile, and holding nothing back.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Craft: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  • Craftiness: the quality of being crafty
  • Trickery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • The following are characters from the PlayStation game Chrono Cross.
  • Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception; deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty; to deceive, to beguile
  • The Project GNU's extension language, it is a library that lets a programmer write extension modules to other programs. ...
  • (n) - deception. guileless - lacking guile, unable to deceive
  • Slyness and cunning in dealing with others; craftiness; here, deception.
  • Treacherous cunning; crafty deceit.