guile
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“She was a black hole, whose charm and guile belied her hatred of the world,” Inspector Yavuz concludes of Chana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
For a Rangers side crying out for attacking guile and inventiveness on the flanks, Curtis being limited to just eight minutes in their Premiership opener against United was surprising.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Yet Brown got to Number 10 with a mixture of patience, caution, guile and ruthlessness, whereas Andy Burnham speedy rise was largely due to one major electoral gamble.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
This extended reality might work even better for individual sports, where each athlete’s strength and guile would be tested in ways never seen: Imagine Muhammad Ali vs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish- brown mustache.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing guile
The Crucible
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Grade 11, List 2
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