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guileful

[ gahyl-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.


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Other Words From

  • guileful·ly adverb
  • guileful·ness noun
  • un·guileful adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of guileful1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; guile, -ful
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

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

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