Associations to the word «Guile»

Wiktionary

GUILE, noun. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
GUILE, noun. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
GUILE, verb. To deceive, to beguile

Dictionary definition

GUILE, noun. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
GUILE, noun. The quality of being crafty.
GUILE, noun. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne