| 单词 | guile |
| 释义 | guile (once / 1399 pages) n Use the noun guile for cunning, craftiness, and artful duplicity. Acting like you have a job on Wall Street when you're actually unemployed would take a lot of guile. The noun guile has quite negative connotations, as it refers to the kind of knowledge and skill that can be used by comic book villains for evil and not good! People who have guile are also thought of as being wily (which is also a related word), sneaky, and deceitful. Those who are free of guile are pure and upstanding, and Henry David Thoreau affirms those feelings when he wrote: "It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile!" WORD FAMILYguile: guileful, guileless, guiles+/guileful: guilefully/guileless: guilelessly USAGE EXAMPLESHe is scornful of multinational compacts and regional alliances, preferring bilateral negotiations and one-on-one tests of strength and guile. Economist(Dec 08, 2016) Seemingly missing in the new president is the political guile to reconcile these contradictions. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) When he spoke, it was with a tinge of guile and tenderness. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) 1n shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception Syn|Hyper craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) 2n the quality of being crafty Syn|Hyper craftiness, deceitfulness disingenuousness the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor 3n the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) Syn|Hypo|Hyper chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile dupery, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage juggleryartful trickery designed to achieve an end goldbrickanything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation the act of deceiving |
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