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