GUILE Synonyms

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage

• the power of creative imagination

• intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

• the property of being ingenious

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• the quality of being deceitful

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

• the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a clandestine love affair

• cause to be interested or curious

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

• the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty