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guile

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Noun

  1. Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
  2. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
  3. Obsolete form of gold.
  4. Alternative form of gyle.

Verb

  1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from French.

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