guile

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
2. (countable, uncountable) Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

Verb

To deceive, beguile, bewile.

Conceptes

art

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sofisma

astúcia

ardit

obliqüitat

sornegueria

sagacitat

picardia

estratagema

arteria

engalipada

farfolla

cançoneria

romanceria

Sinònims

deceit

cunning

craft

trickery

fraud

craftiness

slyness

deception

wile

dissimulation

cheating

wiliness

duplicity

artifice

foxiness

chicanery

deceitfulness

trick

delusion

shenanigan

hypocrisy

chicane

beguilement

falsehood

fallacy

resourcefulness

perfidy

sham

shrewdness

spoof

swindle

swindling

tergiversation

treacherousness

treachery

trickiness

wiles

humbuggery

shame

clever deceit

trickishness

jiggery pokery

bilk

charlatanry

cheat

circumvention

cleverness

crookedness

cunningness

disguise

Traduccions

ruse

astucia

List

astuzia

fourberie

πονηριά

astúcia

astuce

inganno

δόλος

furberia

imbroglio

πανουργία

falsità

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɡaɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: gile

In summary

From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.