What's the difference between guideless and guileless?

Guideless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a guide.

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Guileless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from guile; artless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
  • (2) He is without a doubt the most guileless and gauche politician I have ever met.
  • (3) These horrors are undeniable, but the use of memoirs intended to distance their authors from Nazism by depicting Hitler's clique as contemptible reinforces the sense of Germans as guileless victims.
  • (4) We don't associate the slipperiness of memory with the guilelessness of youth.
  • (5) So Katherine Parkinson, four years in shoulder-pads as guileless office manager Jen in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (and outfitted pretty identically for her role as maitre d' Caroline in recent BBC comedy Whites ) is relishing a change of threads for her role in Season's Greetings at the National.
  • (6) Plus of course to stop smiling that peculiarly guileless smile, the look of a man who’s just been hit on the head with a rock and thinks it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
  • (7) Still others come out of love, a guileless love for a country they don't yet know but that they hope will be all they've dreamed.
  • (8) Here, the guileless Rowlf turns WereRowlf; the bloodline goes back to the "Wild Man" of medieval art, a folkloric furry man-beast of the woods that Rowlf makes his own.
  • (9) Michael Rubinstein, solicitor for the publishers Penguin, was a friend of her father, who persuaded her to take the stand, judging correctly how lucid and guileless her evidence would be.
  • (10) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
  • (11) For the guileless pathos of that statement alone, I could forgive Hitchens almost anything.
  • (12) It's the fundamental Cage paradox: the guilelessness that makes his performance.
  • (13) I looked into his guileless, headteacher's countenance.
  • (14) Second, there is a winning boyishness to him – he’s serious, intense, guileless.
  • (15) Then the naughty boy can run rings round nanny, explaining, all guileless innocence, that he wasn't playing with the toys, just with the box.
  • (16) There is an endearing guilelessness to Criado-Perez.
  • (17) Her odd combo of artiness and artlessness, and the way she came across in interviews – at once guileless and guarded – made her a target for music-press mockery.
  • (18) The way he enthuses about film is guileless, like a kid.
  • (19) Simon Cowell is musically irrelevant” – not even Walsh himself could have mistaken the outburst for anything other than guileless insecurity.
  • (20) She seems gawky and guileless, a galumphing work in progress; “more goose than swan” in the view of New York Times critic AO Scott .

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