Both Uses of
guile
in
Black Like Me
- He was boisterous, loud and guileless.†
- I saw again their large eyes, guileless, not yet aware that doors into wonderlands of security, opportunity and hope were closed to them.
*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.
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful