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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
guile
1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
• Syn:
trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan
• Derivationally related forms:
wily (for: wile), chicane (for: chicane), chicane (for: chicanery), trick (for: trickery)
• Hypernyms:
deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
• Hyponyms:
fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug,
put-on, jugglery
2. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
• Syn:
craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness
• Derivationally related forms:
wily (for: wiliness), sly (for: slyness), foxy (for: foxiness), crafty (for: craftiness), crafty (for: craft)
• Hypernyms:
shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
3. the quality of being crafty
• Syn:
craftiness, deceitfulness
• Derivationally related forms:
deceitful (for: deceitfulness)
• Hypernyms:
disingenuousness
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