Both Uses of
guile
in
Anna Karenina
- He looked at her hair done up high, with the long white veil and white flowers and the high, stand-up, scalloped collar, that in such a maidenly fashion hid her long neck at the sides and only showed it in front, her strikingly slender figure, and it seemed to him that she looked better than ever—not because these flowers, this veil, this gown from Paris added anything to her beauty; but because, in spite of the elaborate sumptuousness of her attire, the expression of her sweet face, of her eyes, of her lips was still her own characteristic expression of guileless truthfulness.†
Part 5guileless = 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.
- "I should have some," said Levin, not without some guile, hoping Veslovsky would be tempted by the vodka, and would go away to them.
Part 6 *guile = cunning (shrewd, clever) and deceitful
Definition:
cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful