Both Uses of
guile
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- It was hard to associate them with anything cruel or dreadful; and yet they dealt in tales of blood and suffering with a guileless relish that made me almost forget to shudder.†
Chpt 2guileless = 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.
- Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir Launcelot.
Chpt 42 *guileless = innocentstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in guileless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
Definition:
cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful