Associations to the word «Guile»

Wiktionary

GUILE, noun. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
GUILE, noun. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
GUILE, verb. To deceive, to beguile

Dictionary definition

GUILE, noun. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
GUILE, noun. The quality of being crafty.
GUILE, noun. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats