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guilefuladjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meanstried to fix the game with a guileful plot to sabotage the other team's bats, but the umpire caught them artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting given to or marked by cheating and deceptionreceived 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 unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdeceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, falseartful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wilydefrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, trickyinsidious, perfidious, treacherous aboveboard, honest, straight conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, uprightforthright, straightforward |