guile

noun

1. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Similar word(s): craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness

Definition categories: thought, astuteness, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness

2. the quality of being crafty

Similar word(s): craftiness, deceitfulness

Definition categories: attribute, disingenuousness

3. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Similar word(s): chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile

Definition categories: act, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation

verb

1. to deceive, to beguile