"guile" in the noun sense
1. craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
2. craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
the quality of being crafty
3. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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