guile
noun
insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Example Sentences
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They have a decidedly different relationship to the absurd cascades of information than do the supposed “curators” of information who guilefully sell wonder while retaining none of it themselves.
From Newsweek
Hitchens contends that Britain guilefully dominated the relationship by appealing to ties of blood, class, nostalgia and a common tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is not to imply that the play is ever a bore; it is, instead guilefully charged with mesmeric fascinations.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his perfect legislative world, he could calibrate bills so cleverly, pack them so guilefully, that he would look good if Clinton signed and Clinton would look bad if he didn't.
From Time Magazine Archive
He departed not truly, he had envy to his brother, he wrought guilefully, he slew his brother falsely, he denied it, he despaired and damned, he did no penance.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
