(n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Example Sentences:
(1) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(2) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(3) Before coming back to Afghanistan I was worried I would not be able to take photographs again in the way I used to, that my injuries would leave me incapable of the movement and guile needed to be a good photographer.
(4) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
(5) Once they got to grips with Leicester’s zeal, Villa began to demonstrate the greater guile.
(6) The loss of the Brazilian's speed and guile on the left forced Toppmöller to reorganise his attack.
(7) Yet what's most apparent on meeting Russell is an almost complete lack of guile.
(8) In an act of political guile, Clegg negotiated with both parties in secret, not telling the other what he was doing in a bid to maximise his strength.
(9) Likewise, whoever is chosen to attack down the right must show enough guile and speed to beat his man on the outside and draw Slovenian defenders out of the middle.
(10) In London he instantly caught the imagination with his dash and guile.
(11) After he became President Ten Per Cent in 1965, his income from kickbacks for government contracts increased, but his guile went no further than stashing $215,000 in a New York bank in his own name.
(12) It's his spirit, his guile, his unflappable conviction in professional knowledge and practice that you need to channel.
(13) This victory took West Ham nine points clear of 18th-placed Sunderland, whom they visit on Monday, yet such a chasm seems remarkable given the way this team spluttered as they did for long periods here, their football lacking guile and purpose even if the manager said they were "absolutely magnificent".
(14) Straw has been Blackburn's MP for 33 years; he replaced Barbara Castle, for whom he had worked as a special adviser (something of a talent-spotter, Castle once said that she had employed Straw for his "guile and low cunning").
(15) Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear.
(16) Miliband has shown more courage and guile than many expected.
(17) And in the end Ireland lacked the guile and patience to craft the one clear chance their energy might have deserved.
(18) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
(19) Given the guile of those courtiers, that's quite a task: he'll need all the support he can get.
(20) Del Piero must be aware of his stature in the game and this was, of course, the Italian using all that aforementioned experience and guile to Sydney’s advantage, just in a different way.
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 .