guiles
Acts of cunning
Guiles is the plural of guile—instances of cunning or crafty deception.
Where guile as a mass noun refers to the quality itself, guiles names specific acts or strategies of sly manipulation: He saw through her guiles and refused to be swayed.
The plural is uncommon, appearing mostly in literary contexts.
Sly, scheming cleverness
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- wilesDeceptive stratagems
- craftinessShrewd, devious cleverness
duplicity · artifice · subterfuge · scheming · manipulation · fraud · chicanery · dishonesty
Methods to achieve goals
- maneuversPlanned strategic movements
- gambitsTactical opening sacrifices
- ploysDeliberate deceptive tactics
- schemesCrafty organized plans
stratagems · calculations · cleverness · shrewdness · resourcefulness · ingenuity · finesse · maneuvering
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
- villainWicked story antagonist
- LokiNorse god of deception
seduction · temptation · enchantment · siren · fox · Machiavelli · scheming · intrigue
cunning
Sly, scheming cleverness
craftiness · duplicity · artifice · subterfuge · scheming · manipulation · fraud · chicanery · dishonesty · slyness
tactics
Methods to achieve goals
- maneuversPlanned strategic movements
- gambitsTactical opening sacrifices
- ploysDeliberate deceptive tactics
schemes · stratagems · calculations · cleverness · shrewdness · resourcefulness · ingenuity · finesse · maneuvering · outmaneuvering
Iago
Loki · seduction · temptation · enchantment · siren · fox · Machiavelli · scheming · intrigue · betrayal
guileshonesties
States of being truthful
candor · forthrightness · honesty · sincerity · guilelessness
guilesguilelessness
Absence of cunning
naivete · innocence · artlessness · ingenuousness · naiveties
guile, beguile, beguiling, guileful, beguiled, beguiler, beguilement, beguilers, beguiles