 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
guileful
adjective: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme";
"a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik";
"a wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy},
{foxy}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky},
{wily}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Guileful \Guile"ful\, adjective
Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or
treachery; guilty. -- {Guile"ful*ly}, adverb --
{Guile"ful*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "guileful":
Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful,
astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive,
covinous, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid,
designing, devious, diplomatic, duplicitous, false, falsehearted,
feline, finagling, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, indirect, ingenious,
insidious, inventive, knowing, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful,
scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly,
smooth, snaky, sneaking, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic,
subtile, subtle, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous,
trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded,
vulpine, wary, wily
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