单词 | guileful |
释义 | guileful (once / 23592 pages) adj WORD FAMILY guileful: guilefully+/guile: guileful, guileless, guiles/guileless: guilelessly USAGE EXAMPLESWhat you want to do is woo them with guileful envoys, sharing in their spoils and converting them into proxies. Time(Oct 25, 2016) All those careful, guileful phrases – crafted by committees of consultants – sound, in the worst epithet of our age, "inauthentic." US News(Oct 20, 2016) Leper’s face became guileful, his voice flat and impersonal. John Knowles, A Separate Peace(1959) adj marked by skill in deception Syn crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily artful marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft |
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