guile
Plural: guiles
Noun
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- the quality of being crafty
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Obsolete form of gold.
- Alternative form of gyle.
Verb
Verb Forms: guiled, guiling, guiles
- To beguile or cunningly deceive someone.
- To deceive, beguile, bewile.
Examples
- He tried to GUILE his opponent into thinking a challenge was futile.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
chicane, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, foxiness, shenanigan, slyness, trickery, wile, wiliness
Scrabble Score: 6
guile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordguile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
guile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary