guile
noun
insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
Example Sentences
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Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile!
From Time Magazine Archive
This deep guilefulness was hard to detect, from such recesses of cunning did it spring; because she dissembled her longing for a change of wedlock under a show of aspiration for freedom.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
"It was no idle boast," he said with a little chuckle, "but I have a ship," and he nodded in a sort of childish guilefulness.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
