guile

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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.

Konzepte

List

Arglist

irreführen

Tücke

Verschlagenheit

irreleiten

Gerissenheit

Synonyme

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

Übersetzungen

ruse

astucia

astuzia

fourberie

astuce

astúcia

πονηριά

inganno

δόλος

dolus

falsità

imbroglio

furberia

arglist

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡaɪl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: 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.