Guile

Noun

 * 1)  Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
 * 2) deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty
 * 3) * 'The Bible - King James Version: John 1:47
 * Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

Verb

 * 1) to deceive, to beguile

Adjectives for Guile
political; baleful; false; innocent; spiritual; fatal; venerable; smooth; sweet.

Synonyms for Guile
craft, cunning, artifice, duplicity, deceit, double-dealing, dishonesty, trickery, knavishness, fraud, wiliness, cleverness, artfulness, craftiness, astuteness, slyness, subtlety, dissimulation, chicanery, deception, rascality, imposture, stratagem, hypocrisy, treachery.

Antonyms for Guile
honesty, openness, candor, fair-dealing, frankness, ingenuousness, fairness, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, genuineness, artlesnness, integrity, probity, rectitude, rightness, straightness, reliability, unaffectedness, plainness, simplicity, fealty.

Thesaurus
Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity, falseheartedness, falseness, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship, hypocrisy, indirection, ingeniousness, insidiousness, inventiveness, one-upmanship, readiness, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, treacherousness, trickiness, underhandedness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit

Etymology
From guile:, from  *undefined:. Cognate via with wile:.

Noun

 * Finnish: juonikkuus, kavaluus
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic: vélabrögð, kænska, slægð


 * Interlingua: astutia
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: astúcia; fraude
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Icelandic: véla, tæla

Derived terms

 * beguile
 * guileful
 * guileless

Related terms

 * wile

Etymology
, see above

Noun

 * 1) trickery; deception

Descendants

 * English: