guile

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

ruse

fourberie

astuce

tromperie

subtilité

tricherie

tromper

hypocrisie

escroquerie

leurre

roublardise

rouerie

caractère trompeur

entourlouper

Synonymes

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

Traductions

astucia

List

astuzia

astúcia

πονηριά

inganno

δόλος

boosaardigheid

furberia

list

imbroglio

dolus

arglist

πανουργία

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡaɪl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.