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Synonyms & Antonyms of guileful
1
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
- tried to fix the game with a guileful plot to sabotage the other team's bats, but the umpire caught them
Synonyms for guileful
Words Related to guileful
- crooked,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- fraudulent,
- insinuating,
- knavish,
- Machiavellian,
- oblique,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- treacherous,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unscrupulous
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2
given to or marked by cheating and deception
- received a guileful answer when I asked the dealer if the used car had ever been in a collision
Synonyms for guileful
- bent
- [chiefly British],
- crooked,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- fast,
- fraudulent,
- rogue,
- shady,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- underhand,
- underhanded
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