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
"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
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
