English noun: guile |
1. | guile (cognition) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
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| Synonyms | craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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2. | guile (attribute) the quality of being crafty |
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| Synonyms | craftiness, deceitfulness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disingenuousness |
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3. | guile (act) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) |
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| Synonyms | chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| Broader (hypernym) | deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, jugglery, put-on |
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