Definitions for guiles

guiles guile

Spelling: [gahyl]
IPA: /gaɪl/

Guiles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in guiles (egilsu).

Definitions for guiles

noun

  1. insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.

Origin of guiles

1175-1225; Middle English Old French Germanic; akin to wile

Examples for guiles

Thus he says, truly, therefore we must meet guile with guile.

She had not guessed that he was more in dread of her tears than of her guile.

He was being forced to play a deep game with her and was meeting guile with guile.

But to say nothing of the innovative frame structure, what stands out here is the guile and agency of the female characters.

The cardinal's smile had changed from one of benignity to one of guile.

There was no guile or evil in them, and because of it she wondered all the more that she could not face them.

But he looked into the horn, and lo: "guile is in the drink," said he.

There must be guile behind it, or he knew naught of the ways of men.

"If that is the case, hats off to him for guile and deviousness," says Yossi Verter in Haaretz.

Thus: in that by guile they allure the people to the lust of the flesh.

Word Value for guiles
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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