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Examples of guileful
guileful
Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar.
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These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
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The master craftsman in this melange, though, is Harry Gould, who portrays the guileful, geriatric district attorney.
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It is only on the river that he asserts his true strength as a guileful fisherman, a man who makes a hard-won skill look easy.
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The defense was all about crafting an image that would nullify the prosecution's arguments of a guileful, corrupt public official.
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Republican deconstruction artists quickly tore into the lofty images that Democratic campaign managers had spun around their guileful, graceful nominee.
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In the service of his objectives, he could be, and often was, devious, guileful, manipulative, evasive, dissembling, underhanded, even ruthless.
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Things turned still more devious when Florence, after Hardy's death, reworked some passages to make his first wife Emma look more guileful and sly.
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She adroitly handled her puerile husband and his imperious aunt with a guileful blend of charm, submissiveness and carefully chosen moments of defiance.
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- Crafty: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
- Full of guile; treacherously deceptive
