GUILE

trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan

(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

craftiness, deceitfulness, guile

(noun) the quality of being crafty

craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness

(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles)

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

Verb

guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)

To deceive, beguile, bewile.

Source: Wiktionary

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Guile, n. Etym: [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin, and the same word as E. wile. See Wile.]

Definition: 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.

Guile, v. t. Etym: [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]

Definition: To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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