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Wily guy is left kicking heels by empty urinal
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guileful
Word definitions for guileful in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty , cunning , dodgy , foxy , knavish , slick , ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Full of guile; treacherously deceptive. alt. Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guileful \Guile"ful\, a. Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly , adv. -- Guile"ful*ness , n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from guile + -ful . Nowadays only in poems and dictionaries. Related: Guilefully ; guilefulness .
Usage examples of guileful.
Howbeit he had looked on the King closely and wisely, and deemed that he was both cruel and guileful, so that he rejoiced that he had spoken naught of Ursula, and he was minded to keep her within gates all the while they abode at Cheaping-Knowe.
Then, he refrained from winking at her when she gave him a guileful looking smile.
And when Penelope and Odysseus are about to go upstairs to their first night in twenty years, the house is sounding with the guileful music of a pretended wedding, a truly Odyssean accompaniment.
For what but a guileful purpose could that goddess demand the best man seeing that in her own sacred festivals she requires such obscenities as the best men would be covered with shame to hear at their own tables?