guileful

How to use guileful in a sentence

• She was preternaturally animated and demonstrative at the station—your sex's little guileful way ever since the world began.

  Jaffery | William J. Locke

• Loki became guileful from that wicked woman; thence in the world are all giantesses come.

  The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

• There drank the courtiers wine in their Valhall—but the guileful ones silence kept—the Huns' wrath they feared.

  The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

• And now will I do so no more, lest I become a guileful woman, with nought good in me save the fairness of my body.

  The Water of the Wondrous Isles | William Morris

• As he outlined his guileful proposition the scowls of his listeners gave way to grins of full approval and admiration.

  A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck