Both Uses of
guile
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- It was an old trick even then, but this time it was guileless, because she was the one who had talked about her albums as they walked from the National Theater.†
Chpt 4
- the guileless crowd that sang the national anthem
Chpt 5 *guileless = sincere -- 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.
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful