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Synonyms & Antonyms of guilefulness
1
skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means
- he had an inherent guilefulness that made him a formidable power broker in Washington
Synonyms for guilefulness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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2
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery
- it was guilefulness and not goodness that got the gold digger her millions
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“Guilefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guilefulness. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
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