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Thesaurus: guile

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

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  1. n. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
  2. n. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
  3. n. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
  4. n. the quality of being crafty
  5. n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  6. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton. To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.
  7. Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;treachery.Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47.To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.
  8. n:100 n shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception n the quality of being crafty n the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)