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  • And I knew by his eyes that no guile had he, So I married my man from the North Country.  (source)
    guile = cunningness (shrewdness) and deceit
  • Leper's face became guileful, his voice flat and impersonal.  (source)
    guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
  • What is childlike humility? It's not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.  (source)
    guile = cunning (shrewdness and cleverness), and deceit
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  • I bid you now drop your guile and confess...  (source)
    guile = cunning and deceit
  • His eyes were as wide and guileless as those of his boy.  (source)
    guileless = innocent -- without cunning (shrewdness, cleverness) or deceit
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in guileless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
  • ...their eyes were knowing and guileful beyond their years.  (source)
    guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
  • He looked at her guilelessly, a milk mustache on his lip.  (source)
    guilelessly = innocently -- without cunning (shrewdness, cleverness) or deceit
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessly" in guilelessly means in a manner that is without. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmlessly, fearlessly, and remorselessly.
  • The internal arrangements of the Finch house were indicative of Simon's guilelessness and the absolute trust with which he regarded his offspring.  (source)
    guilelessness = openness (lack of cunning; i.e., not deceitful or shrewd)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in guilelessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
  • Beowulf speaks, tells how he would give his armour to his son if he had one; thanks God that he has not sworn falsely or done guilefully; and prays Wiglaf to bear out the treasure that he may see it before he dies.†  (source)
  • Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.  (source)
    guiled = treacherous or deceiving
  • Therefore the Heathobards' faith I account not, Their deal of the folk-peace, unguileful to Danes, Their fast-bounden friendship.†  (source)
    unguileful = without cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unguileful means not and reverses the meaning of guileful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile, and his willingness and capacity for hard work.  (source)
    guile = cunning (shrewdness and cleverness)
  • With her smooth face, she looked like a young girl, frail, guileless, and innocent.  (source)
    guileless = innocent -- without cunning (shrewdness, cleverness) or deceit
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