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Guile
Definitions
- 1 A surname from French.
- 1 Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. uncountable
"It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball."
- 2 Obsolete form of gold. alt-of, obsolete
- 3 the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) wordnet
- 4 Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty. countable, uncountable
"Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!"
- 5 Alternative form of gyle. alt-of, alternative
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- 6 the quality of being crafty wordnet
- 7 shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception wordnet
- 1 To deceive, beguile, bewile.
"Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall"
Etymology
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
Variant forms.
* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, borrowed from French guile. * Also as an English surname, variant of Gill. * Possibly also Americanized from the German surname Geil.
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