Synonyms for guile
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Trickery
trickery, deceit, deception, duplicity, wile, artifice, chicanery, hypocrisy, fraud, chicane, shenanigan informal, finesse, dissimulation, intrigue
2. Cunning
cunning, craftiness, craft, astuteness, subtlety, art, wiliness, artfulness, slyness, foxiness, subtilty, shrewdness
Definitions
- n. 1
Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- n. 2
Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Related words
- Other spellings
- gyle
Forms
- Plural
- guiles → trickeries, deceits, deceptions, duplicities…
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Deceit is the habit, deception the act; guile applies to the disposition out of which deceit and deception grow, and also to their actual practise.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- deception She was aware of his propensity towards deception.
- deceit He acquired a great fortune by using deceit and treachery.
- trickery The ones who lack courage, exceed in trickery.
- duplicity Tom is often accused of duplicity.
- cunning Tuaregs have a reputation for bravery and cunning.
- craftiness We offer a contest of craftiness and agility.
By length
- 3 letters
- art1
- 4 letters
- wile1
- 5 letters
- fraud1, craft1
- 6 letters
- deceit2
- 7 letters
- cunning2, finesse2, chicane, slyness2
- 8 letters
- intrigue2, subtlety3, trickery3, artifice3, wiliness, foxiness, subtilty
- 9 letters
- deception3, hypocrisy4, duplicity4, chicanery4
- 10 letters
- shrewdness2, craftiness, astuteness3, shenanigan4, artfulness
- 12 letters
- guilefulness
- 13 letters
- dissimulation, insidiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (deceit2 = 2 syllables).