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Definition
cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful
- Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile... for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments.Chapter 1 (35% in)
guile = cunning and deceit
- These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.Chapter 4 (83% in)
There are no more uses of "guile" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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