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Recent Examples of guile These assertions go beyond guile, opportunism, cruelty, despair, or self-preservation. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Former Heat Fades The 37-year-old right-hander, who broke in with Atlanta as NL Rookie of the Year in 2011, lacks his old velocity but compensates with a combination of guile and experience. Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 But the sensational framing obscures what's really happening: design flaws dressed up as intentional guile. ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025 Opening pages show Toews’ characteristic wit and guile squaring off against extraordinary pain. Literary Hub july 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for guile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guile
Noun
  • Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But Israeli cunning, buoyed by remarkable intelligence capabilities and precision targeting, has damaged the group.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Everything can be used as a tool for good and to build, or for bad and destruction and deception.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The question now is whether our ability to detect deception can evolve as fast as the tools that create it.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And with that comes deceit and manipulation.
    Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The 2022 push for Measure B, which enabled this year’s approval of new city trash policies, was built on deceit about how much the fees would be.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As investigators dig deeper, more disturbing secrets emerge, including financial fraud, addiction, mysterious deaths and corruption.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Western Alliance also is alleging fraud in its bad loans.
    Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both had a bad drinking habit by then, and when Martha confronted Willie about his cheating, a fight broke out.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to delivering high-quality search results, this method hinders search-engine cheating; artificially boosting your web page by putting up a thousand pages linking to it won’t accomplish much if those pages have low status.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Guile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guile. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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