All 3 Uses of
guile
in
Catch-22
- He saw a simple, sincere face that was incapable of subtlety or guile, an honest, frank face with disunited large eyes, rusty hair, black eyebrows and an unfortunate reddish-brown mustache.†
Chpt 7
- Milo watched Colonel Cathcart steadily with a bland and guileless expression.
Chpt 35 *guileless = 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.
- 'That's right,' said Colonel Korn, nodding, gratified immeasurably by Yossarian's guileless surprise and bewilderment.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful