All 3 Uses of
guile
in
The Jungle by Sinclair
- It was like a wonderful poem to him, and he took it all in guilelessly—even to the conspicuous signs demanding immaculate cleanliness of the employees.†
Chpt 3
- So guileless was he, and ignorant of the nature of business, that he did not even realize that he had become an employee of Brown's, and that Brown and Durham were supposed by all the world to be deadly rivals
Chpt 3 *guileless = innocent -- without cunning (shrewdness or cleverness)standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in guileless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- His big brother Charlie was in love with the guileless maiden who played the part of "Little Bright-Eyes" in "The Kaliph of Kamskatka."†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful