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guileful
Synonyms and Antonyms of guileful
1
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
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
2
given to or marked by cheating and deception
bent [chiefly British], crooked, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded
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