All 3 Uses of
guile
in
And The Mountains Echoed
- ...something of her had passed to Pari. Something of her cheerful devotion, her guilelessness, her unabashed hopefulness.
Chpt 2 *guilelessness = innocence or openness (lack of deceit or shrewdness)standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in guilelessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
- I have never before seen her smile this purely, this guilelessly.†
Chpt 8
- But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by the hard, unyielding confines of the existence that Baba has constructed for me, at first knowingly, when I was young, and now guilelessly, now that he is fading day by day.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(guile) cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful