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guileful
Synonyms and Antonyms of guileful
- tried to fix the game with a guileful plot to sabotage the other team's bats, but the umpire caught them
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous
backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced
circuitous, circular, roundabout
clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover
- received a guileful answer when I asked the dealer if the used car had ever been in a collision
bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded
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