Both Uses of
guile
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile... for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments.
Chpt 1 *guile = cunning and deceit
- These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.†
Chpt 4guileful = full of cunning (shrewdness and cleverness, and perhaps deceit)
Definition:
cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful