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 2
- 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:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful