Example sentences for: guile

How can you use “guile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It began innocently enough, without guile on my part.

  • Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.

  • The Talmud, with its commentaries on the Torah and its commentaries on the commentaries (the process goes on and on) cannot be faulted for using guile to arrive at a congenial "truth."

  • ' FDR, a virtuoso of charm and guile, was more a manner than a mind, but in politics, manner--style--can be a kind of program.

  • He is correct to identify the glibness, guile, and style with which Reed manipulates mass audiences, but he doesn't point out that this masks a dark, self-serving ambition.


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