Guileful

Guileful
Guileful Guile"ful, a. Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- {Guile"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Guile"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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  • guileful — index collusive, delusive, dishonest, evasive, fallacious, fraudulent, insidious, machiavellian, perfidious …   Law dictionary

  • guileful — c.1300, from GUILE (Cf. guile) + FUL (Cf. ful). Nowadays only in poems and dictionaries. Related: Guilefully; guilefulness …   Etymology dictionary

  • guileful — *sly, cunning, crafty, tricky, foxy, insidious, wily, artful …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • guileful — [gīl′fəl] adj. full of guile; deceitful guilefully adv …   English World dictionary

  • guileful — guile ► NOUN ▪ sly or cunning intelligence. DERIVATIVES guileful adjective. ORIGIN Old French, related to WILE(Cf. ↑W) …   English terms dictionary

  • guileful — adjective see guile …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • guileful — guilefully, adv. guilefulness, n. /guyl feuhl/, adj. insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily. [1300 50; ME; see GUILE, FUL] * * * …   Universalium

  • guileful — adjective Full of guile; treacherously deceptive …   Wiktionary

  • guileful — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep laid, designing, devious, diplomatic …   Moby Thesaurus

  • guileful — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Deceitfully clever: artful, crafty, cunning, foxy, scheming, sharp, sly, tricky, wily. See ABILITY, HONEST, MEANS. 2. Marked by treachery or deceit: devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, indirect, lubricious,… …   English dictionary for students

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