Guile is an English word with synonyms like craftiness or chicanery. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Guile meaning
- Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
- Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
Synonyms of Guile
Using Guile
- The main meaning on this page is: Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception. | Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
- Useful related words include: craftiness, chicanery, trickery, disingenuousness.
- In the example corpus, guile often appears in combinations such as: and guile, guile of, the guile.
Context around Guile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Guile
- In this selection, "guile" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, example, race, own, shouldn, creating and forged stand out and add context to how "guile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accuracy and guile kept the and advantage of guile s high. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "guile" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with guile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The guile of Ravichandran Ashwin further adds string to Capitals' attack. (11 words)
With both out, the team can look devoid of creativity and guile. (12 words)
Deepti’s relentless accuracy and guile kept the West Indies in check. (12 words)
With Roman Yaremchuk and Artem Dovbyk in attack, the pace of winger Mykhailo Mudryk, guile of Zinchenko in midfield and steel of Illya Zabarnyi and Vitaliy Mykolenko at the back, Ukraine have a capable squad. (35 words)
And while Nadal has brute force and Djokovic a robotic efficiency, Federer’s supreme grace and guile, as well as his gentlemanly manner, have made him such a worldwide favourite. (30 words)
Powell and Wood both unleashed powerful drives at Oualah as the Londoners came forward, but Weymouth remained a threat on the break through the guile of Ash and Rose. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
A powerful mid-range combo that takes advantage of Guile's high mobility unique attacks.
For example, Guile's Sonic Boom in requires the joystick to be held away from the opponent and then back toward them with a punch.
Havertz, a more creative and instinctive player, should add movement and guile where his predecessor brought presence.
Powell and Wood both unleashed powerful drives at Oualah as the Londoners came forward, but Weymouth remained a threat on the break through the guile of Ash and Rose.
Still, Starscream's excessive greed and guile shouldn't be mistaken for lack of strength.
Wainwright used guts and guile, with an occasional patented curveball mixed in to keep Team USA in front.
With both out, the team can look devoid of creativity and guile.
With scores level 7-7, France seized the momentum with Boulard’s speed and Marina Menager’s guile creating successive line-breaks.
But even the least perceptive observer would easily detect that it is all guile, forged altruism.
Deepti’s relentless accuracy and guile kept the West Indies in check.
It was simply race guile which, not for the first time, let Norris down.
She lead them (and others) into battle with wicked makeup and loud claims, usually backed up by her charge and her own guile.
Undersized at 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, Schallock relied on guile, a sharp-breaking curveball and deceptive changeup.
Walsall began to show more guile beyond the half-hour mark as Bycroft thwarted Josh Gordon once again.
With Roman Yaremchuk and Artem Dovbyk in attack, the pace of winger Mykhailo Mudryk, guile of Zinchenko in midfield and steel of Illya Zabarnyi and Vitaliy Mykolenko at the back, Ukraine have a capable squad.
And while Nadal has brute force and Djokovic a robotic efficiency, Federer’s supreme grace and guile, as well as his gentlemanly manner, have made him such a worldwide favourite.
Everywhere else, Guile either arrives too late to fight or not at all.
He’s given Dundalk a bit more guile in midfield since the break and started off the aforementioned attack.
Joshua has added guile to his muscles over the years and that is a heavyweight rarity.
The guile of Ravichandran Ashwin further adds string to Capitals' attack.
Common combinations with guile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and guile 7×
- guile of 4×
- the guile 3×
- guile and 3×
- more guile 2×
- guile to 2×
- of guile 2×
- his guile 2×