"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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