Vocabulary Word
Word: guile
Definition: deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning; Ex. persuade her by guile
Definition: deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning; Ex. persuade her by guile
Sentences Containing 'guile'
It is the work of a brave man surely, in whom there was no guile!
The uncompromising stiffness of Zeno or Chrysippus is softened and transformed by passing through a nature reverent and tolerant, gentle and free from guile; the grim resignation which made life possible to the Stoic sage becomes in him almost a mood of aspiration.
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