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—guilefully, adv. —guilefulness, n./guyl"feuhl/, adj.insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.[1300-50; ME; see GUILE, -FUL]
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Guileful — Guile ful, a. Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. {Guile ful*ly}, adv. {Guile ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
guileful — index collusive, delusive, dishonest, evasive, fallacious, fraudulent, insidious, machiavellian, perfidious … Law dictionary
guileful — c.1300, from GUILE (Cf. guile) + FUL (Cf. ful). Nowadays only in poems and dictionaries. Related: Guilefully; guilefulness … Etymology dictionary
guileful — *sly, cunning, crafty, tricky, foxy, insidious, wily, artful … New Dictionary of Synonyms
guileful — [gīl′fəl] adj. full of guile; deceitful guilefully adv … English World dictionary
guileful — guile ► NOUN ▪ sly or cunning intelligence. DERIVATIVES guileful adjective. ORIGIN Old French, related to WILE(Cf. ↑W) … English terms dictionary
guileful — adjective see guile … New Collegiate Dictionary
guileful — adjective Full of guile; treacherously deceptive … Wiktionary
guileful — Synonyms and related words: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep laid, designing, devious, diplomatic … Moby Thesaurus
guileful — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Deceitfully clever: artful, crafty, cunning, foxy, scheming, sharp, sly, tricky, wily. See ABILITY, HONEST, MEANS. 2. Marked by treachery or deceit: devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, indirect, lubricious,… … English dictionary for students
