Example sentences for: guile

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

  • But behind that bumpkin's exterior lurked a man of endless guile and will.

  • 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."

  • But it almost simultaneously developed a secondary sense as a noun meaning nonsense, rubbish, a synonym for the more frequently used gammon , a British cant word for guile or deceit that the convicts brought with them and which also moved in the direction of nonsense or humbug.

  • We thrill at the telephone game of question and evasion, thinking our guile and cunning will ultimately yield 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.


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