(a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.
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.
Slippery
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(1) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(2) Confronted on that slipperiness in an interview this morning with Bloomberg, Ryan said ending special-interest tax breaks would make up for lost revenue, and that the Tax Policy Center study did not take economic growth effects into account.
(3) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(4) That formula goes: “Now is not the time.” This is another of those May constructions that superficially sound definitive, but are really quite slippery.
(5) I would favour it, others wouldn't, but it's a new discussion on another law, not a slippery slide.
(6) At this point, it is clear we are standing on a slippery slope,” he said, adding that fresh lethal attacks could “release violent energies that the two sides have generally managed to keep on a low flame over the past decade”.
(7) It is shown that the size of the slippery context effect depends on the frequency difference between the tones: Small frequency differences (less than a critical bandwidth) produced essentially no slippery effect; much larger differences produced substantial effects.
(8) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
(9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
(10) Effectively, we are on a slippery slope now, and ignoring this problem won't make it go away.
(11) Analysis of the "slippery site" suggests that a low probability of unpairing of the aminoacyl-tRNA from the 0-frame codon at the ribosomal A site reduces the efficiency of frameshifting more than the reluctance of a given tRNA to have its wobble base mispaired.
(12) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(13) The crew tried pulling the exhausted survivors aboard, but they were naked and their arms and legs covered in slippery diesel.
(14) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
(15) All that slippery chocolate makes it almost impossible for them to stand erect under the studio lights.
(16) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
(17) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
(18) Or they have settled for grilling him as a way of getting at the slippery Cameron.
(19) Weidmann sees this as playing politics – unwarranted, dangerous, the slippery slope.
(20) The continued development of smaller deflated balloon profiles with slippery surfaces and better power transmission characteristics will undoubtedly make the vigorous techniques mentioned above less necessary to master in the future.