All 3 Uses of
guile
in
Oliver Twist
- 'A creature,' continued the young man, passionately, 'a creature as fair and innocent of guile as one of God's own angels, fluttered between life and death.†
Chpt 35
- While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl.†
Chpt 41
- the object of the first, true, ardent, only passion of a guileless girl.
Chpt 49 *guileless = innocent -- without cunning (shrewdness, cleverness) or deceitstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in guileless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful