Guileful

Synonyms for "guileful" (93 found)

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Closest matches (19)

Adjective(5 words)

crafty cunning sly calculating craftier

acute arch artful astute byzantine cagey calculating canny chiseling clever collusive covinous crafty cunning

Strong matches (28)

Adjective(5 words)

cunningest deceptive dodgy foxy knavish

cute deceitful deep deep-laid designing devious dexterous diplomatic disingenuous downy duplicitous false falsehearted feline finagling foxy fraudulent furtive indirect ingenious

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insidious inventive knowing

Related words (46)

machiavellian machiavellic pawky politic ready resourceful scheming serpentine sharp shifty shrewd slick slippery sly smooth snaky sneaking sneaky sophistical stealthy

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strategic subtile subtle supple surreptitious tactical treacherous trickish tricksy trickytwo facedtwo-faced underhand underhanded vulpine wary wily

Adjective(8 words)

manipulative slick slier slyest tricksy tricky wiliest wily

Noun(1 words)

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6 relation types

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4 entries

behavioral traitcharacter traitpolitical strategyrhetorical technique

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6 entries

crafty deceptive manipulation scheming subterfuge trickery

Collocations

6 entries

guileful deceptionguileful diplomacyguileful manipulationguileful rhetoricguileful smileguileful tactic

Inflections

2 entries

more guilefulmost guileful

Derivations

2 entries

guilefully guilefulness

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