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
guile (countable and uncountable, plural guiles)
(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
guile (third-person singular simple present guiles, present participle guiling, simple past and past participle guiled)
To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Source: Wiktionary
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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
