guile

(gīl)
n.

1. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
2. Obsolete. A trick or stratagem.

tr.v. Archaic, guiled, guil·ing, guiles.
To beguile; deceive.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin, akin to Old English wigle, divination, sorcery.]

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noun

1. Deceitful cleverness: art, artfulness, artifice, craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness. See honest/dishonest, means.
2. The act or practice of deceiving: cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, shiftiness. See honest/dishonest.

n

Definition: slyness, cleverness
Antonyms: artlessness, candor, frankness, honesty, naivety, openness, sincerity

IN BRIEF: Deceit and cunning.

The speaker seemed to be full of guile so I did not believe a word of the speech.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - svig, falskhed, list, snedighed
v. tr. - fuppe

Nederlands (Dutch)
arglist(igheid)

Français (French)
n. - astuce, ruse, fourberie, tromperie
v. tr. - tromper, duper

Deutsch (German)
n. - Arglist, Heimtücke, List
v. - betrügen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δολιότητα, πανουργία, τέχνασμα

Italiano (Italian)
astuzia, stratagemma

Português (Portuguese)
n. - perfídia (f), malícia (f)

Русский (Russian)
вероломство, лукавство

Español (Spanish)
n. - astucia, sagacidad, ardid, artimaña, estratagema
v. tr. - actuar con astucia para lograr un fin

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - svek

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
狡诈, 诡计, 欺骗

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 狡詐, 詭計
v. tr. - 欺騙

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 음흉함, 교활함
v. tr. - 속이다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 狡猾さ, ずるさ, 狡猾

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مكر, خداع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רמאות, מרמה‬
v. tr. - ‮רימה, היתעה‬

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