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guile
[
gahyl
]
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Origin
guile
/
gaɪl
/
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[
gahyl
]
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noun
insidious cunning in attaining a
goal
; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Origin:
1175–1225;
Middle English
<
Old French
<
Germanic;
akin to
wile
Synonyms
trickery, fraud, craft.
See
deceit.
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While innocent Frank is principally defined by his curiosity, he isn't without
guile
.
Corruption - where someone with power or
guile
gets what they want first.
It's too personal, they're in love with their own
guile
.
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While innocent Frank is principally defined by his curiosity, he isn't without
guile
.
Corruption - where someone with power or
guile
gets what they want first.
It's too personal, they're in love with their own
guile
.
Some attribute this silence to spinelessness, others to tactical
guile
.
But her
guile
, savvy and experience have made her one of the top players in the world.
In one legend he turned his
guile
to a heroic deed and rid the world of darkness.
He had the style of a champion, but the man was not without
guile
.
He had the least
guile
of anyone I've ever met and a total lack of vanity.
If a country is able to exist through what ever means, be it military might or political
guile
, it has the right to exist.
It took some gall and
guile
.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
guile
(ɡaɪl)
—
n
clever or crafty character or behaviour
[C18: from Old French
guile,
of Germanic origin; see
wile
]
'guileful
—
adj
'guilefully
—
adv
'guilefulness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
guile
c.1150, from O.Fr. guile, from Frank. *wigila "trick, ruse" (cf. O.Fris. wigila "sorcery, witchcraft," and O.E. wil "trick," see
wile
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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