English-Thai Dictionary

guile

N เล่ห์เหลี่ยม  กลโกง  มารยา  trickery cunning deceit honesty sincerity frankness le-liam

 

guileful

A ที่ หลอกลวง  tricky treacherous ingenuous truthful

 

guileless

ADJ ซึ่ง ไร้ เล่ห์เหลี่ยม  ซึ่ง ไร้มารยา  honest frank sincere dishonest tricky cunning sueng-rai-le-liam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GUILE

n.gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense. We may, with more successful hope, resolve
To wage by force or guile eternal war.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John 1:47.

 

GUILE

v.t.To disguise craftily.

 

GUILEFUL

a.Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person. 1. Treacherous; deceitful.
2. Intended to deceive; as guileful words.

 

GUILEFULLY

adv. Artfully; insidiously; treacherously.

 

GUILEFULNESS

n.Deceit, secret treachery.

 

GUILELESSNESS

n.Simplicity; freedom from guile.

 

GUILER

n.One who betrays into danger by insidious arts. [Not used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GUILE

Guile, n. Etym: [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin, and the same word as E. wile. See Wile. ]

 

Defn: Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

 

GUILE

Guile, v. t. Etym: [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.]

 

Defn: To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

GUILEFUL

GUILEFUL Guile "ful, a.

 

Defn: Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile "ful *ly, adv. -- Guile "ful *ness, n.

 

GUILELESS

GUILELESS Guile "less, a.

 

Defn: Free from guile; artless. -- Guile "less *ly, adv. Guile "less *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

guile

guile |gīl ɡaɪl | ▶noun sly or cunning intelligence: he used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in. DERIVATIVES guile ful |-fəl |adjective, guile ful ly |-fəlē |adverb ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, probably from Old Norse; compare with wile .

 

guileless

guile less |ˈgīllis ˈɡaɪlˌlɪs | ▶adjective devoid of guile; innocent and without deception: his face, once so open and guileless. DERIVATIVES guile less ly adverb, guile less ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

guile

guile |gʌɪl | ▶noun [ mass noun ] sly or cunning intelligence: he used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in. DERIVATIVES guileful adjective, guilefully adverb ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, probably from Old Norse; compare with wile .

 

guileless

guile |less |ˈgʌɪllɪs | ▶adjective devoid of guile; innocent and without deception: his face, once so open and guileless. DERIVATIVES guilelessly adverb, guilelessness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

guile

guile noun Georgia was the only one among us not taken in by Owen's guile: cunning, craftiness, craft, artfulness, art, artifice, wiliness, slyness, deviousness; wiles, ploys, schemes, stratagems, maneuvers, tricks, subterfuges, ruses; deception, deceit, duplicity, underhandedness, double-dealing, trickery. ANTONYMS honesty.

 

guileless

guileless adjective how can you take advantage of someone so sweet and guileless? artless, ingenuous, naive, open, genuine, natural, simple, childlike, innocent, unsophisticated, unworldly, unsuspicious, trustful, trusting; honest, truthful, sincere, straightforward. ANTONYMS scheming.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

guile

guile noun they penetrated the city's defences by guile: cunning, craftiness, craft, artfulness, art, artifice, wiliness, slyness, deviousness, shrewdness, canniness, ingenuity; wiles, ploys, schemes, stratagems, manoeuvres, subterfuges, tricks, ruses; deception, deceit, duplicity, underhandedness, double-dealing, trickiness, sharp practice, treachery, chicanery, fraud, skulduggery; informal foxiness; archaic knavery, knavishness, management. ANTONYMS honesty; candour.

 

guileless

guileless adjective Paulette's questioning had the guileless innocence of a child: artless, ingenuous, open, honest, sincere, genuine, naive, natural, simple, childlike, innocent, unsophisticated, unworldly, unsuspicious, trustful, trusting; honourable, truthful, frank, candid, straightforward, forthright, unaffected, unpretentious; N. Amer. on the up and up. ANTONYMS scheming.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

guile

guile /ɡaɪl /名詞 U 狡猾 （こうかつ ）さ ; 策略, 悪だくみ .

 

guileless

gu í le less 形容詞 悪だくみをしない, 正直な, 率直な .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞