Guileful

Synonyms for "guileful" (139 found)

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Closest matches (28)

artful acute arch astute byzantine cagey calculating canny chiseling clever collusive covinous crafty cunning cute deceitful deep deep-laid designing

Adjective(7 words)

beguiling booky dastardly deceitful deceptious deceptive deceptory

Adjective(2 words)

crafty cunning

Strong matches (42)

devious dexterous diplomatic disingenuous downy duplicitous false falsehearted feline finagling foxy fraudulent furtive indirect ingenious insidious inventive knowing

Adjective(21 words)

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judasly

Adjective(3 words)

dodgy foxy knavish

Related words (69)

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 tricky two faced two-faced underhand underhanded vulpine wary wily

Adjective(27 words)

nonfaithful perfidious proditorious proditory punic ratlike recreant renegade reptilian reptitious swike traitorish traitorlike traitorly traitorous traitorsome treacherous treachersome treasonous trothless

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unfaithful unleal unloyal unsteadfast untrue viperish viperous

Adjective(5 words)

slick sly tricksy tricky wily

Related word relations

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4 relation types

derived

3 entries

guilefully guilefulness unguileful

derived from

1 entries

guile

related to

3 entries

deceptive guile treacherous

similar

2 entries

artful

Translations

10 translations across 4 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

измамнически adj (full of guile)
коварен adj (full of guile)

Finnish

1 entries

kavala adj (full of guile)

Icelandic

4 entries

flár adj (full of guile)
fláráður adj (full of guile)
svikull adj (full of guile)
táldrægur adj (full of guile)

Macedonian

3 entries

изма́мнички adj (full of guile)
ко́варен adj (full of guile)
лу́кав adj (full of guile)

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