(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.
Guise
Definition:
(n.) Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
(n.) External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
(n.) Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(2) Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
(3) Some desire just to live in the old ways but in a new guise: newly rich and empowered.
(4) Ethical issues regarding saline infusion in the guise of a potent convulsant should also be considered.
(5) While the U.S. Bureau of the Census has had a long-standing policy of abstaining from enumerating the religious beliefs or backgrounds of the American people, at least two-thirds of the Jewish population of the United States has been enumerated in decennial censuses and sample surveys in the guise of persons of Russian stock or origin.
(6) They were not observed in the hybrid cells but had supposedly reappeared in the guise of the CBs.
(7) Among China's other arguments are that countries should not interfere in each other's domestic affairs; that western definitions of human rights do not acknowledge China's fast-rising living standards; and that the west is seeking to impose its own standards in the guise of "universal values".
(8) Russia’s takeover of Crimea was done under the guise of a snap exercise.
(9) Blaming strict gender segregation, the author points out that since desire is natural to humankind, its suppression is bound to make it resurface in a different guise: "For example, monks and those who renounce worldly pleasures quite often tend to be fat, with big bellies.
(10) The Foreign Office should not hide behind any relationship with foreign governments under the guise of ‘commercial sensitivity’,” they said.
(11) I try not to read my reviews, but there's always some friend who'll come along and, under the guise of trying to comfort you, let you know that you've been speared.
(12) Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Trimingham, told Mr Justice Tugendhat the newspaper had a right to freedom of expression, but not to abuse her repeatedly under the guise of exercising that freedom.
(13) We suggest that PMR may present in a variety of guises, or have a "stuttering evolution" to the full syndrome.
(14) Kim may have ordered the confiscation of copies of the video under the guise of a crackdown on pornography, Ishimaru said.
(15) In the guise of a creative writing experiment, male and female college students were asked to listen to a tape recording of a same- or opposite-sex model relating a story in response to a sample TAT card.
(16) The inventions all seemed to herald a brave new world of British prosperity that never transpired, at least not in its engineering guise.
(17) What he of course won't accept is efforts to do away with the ACA that come in the guise of improvements.
(18) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.
(19) Unlike most character comedians, who tend to keep their repertoire to half a dozen guises at the most, Enfield is known for doing such a broad spectrum of characters that it seems a strange choice to take one sketch and stretch it out into an hour and a half's worth of gags big enough to look good on 35mm.
(20) Army troops violently dispersed several protests in Tahrir Square and, in one incident admitted by the ruling generals, sexually assaulted female protesters under the guise of " virginity checks ".