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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
guile
    n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
         [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness,
         guile, slyness, wiliness]
    2: the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness,
       deceitfulness, guile]
    3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
       money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
       guile, wile, shenanigan]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guile \Guile\, n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin,
   and the same word as E. wile. See Wile.]
   Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit;
   treachery.
   [1913 Webster]

         Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. --John
                                                  i. 47.
   [1913 Webster]

         To wage by force or guile eternal war.   --Milton.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Guile \Guile\, v. t. [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]
   To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]

4. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
GUILE
       GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (GNU)
       

Thesaurus Results for guile:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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