Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: guile
IPA transcription: [ɡ'aɪl]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
    Meaning: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
  • Synonyms: craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
    Meaning: the quality of being crafty
  • Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
    Meaning: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Usage examples
  • Innocence on a monument could have appeared no freer of guile than Henriette at that moment.
  • With tremendous exercise of craft, deceit, and guile, he devotes his life godlike to this purpose.