guile
Meanings
Noun
- Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Alternative of gyle
Verb
Origin
- From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile ("deception"), from Frankish *wigila. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
- Variant forms.
Modern English dictionary
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