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guile
noun as in slyness, cleverness
Strongest match
Strong matches
Example Sentences
As captain at right-back Smith showed his experience and guile, he was excellent.
He seems to have the temperament not to be cowed, the question will be whether he has the skill, guile and craft to do the job that will be required.
He was sucked in by the guile of Noman.
With “hate and guile the tools of his trade,” he held up bordellos, liquor stores and gas stations.
The journalist Fred Kaplan, who wrote an essay entitled “The Tarnishing of H.R. McMaster,” stated that I “had been all but incapable of guile” but was “now soaked in the swamp of deceit in the service of Trump.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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