• IPA: /ɡaɪl/

guile

1. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
2. Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, John 1:47 ↗:

     Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

• French: ruse, fourberie
• German: Gerissenheit
• Italian: astuzia, inganno, frode
• Portuguese: astúcia
• Russian: хи́трость
• Spanish: astucia

• Russian: обман
• Spanish: trampa, engaño

guile (guiles, present participle guiling; past and past participle guiled)

1. To deceive, beguile, bewile.

• wile

• French: tromper, entourlouper
• German: irreleiten, irreführen
• Italian: ingannare, turlupinare
• Russian: обма́нывать