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guileful, a. Now only literary.|ˈgaɪlfʊl|
[f. guile n. + -ful.]
Full of guile; deceitful, treacherous.
13..K. Alis. 444 Swithe blithe was Olimpias Of Neptanabus gileful has. c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 116 A noþer gyelful persecucioun is don bi eritykis and false breþeren. 1382Wyclif Hosea vii. 16 Thei ben maad as a gyleful bowe. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 151 Thei ben double and gileful. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 50 Turgesius deyde by gylefull wyles of women. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. cxlii. Wks. (1876) 258 His enemyes which haue layde in his waye gylefull baytes. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 77 By guilefull faire words, Peace may be obtayn'd. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xi. (1596) 166 All men will know that he relied upon guilefull reasons. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lx, Thus sought the dire Enchauntresse in his minde Her guilefull bayt to haue embosomed. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xi. xxvii, He whets her wrath with many a guilefull word. 1700Dryden Fable, Pythagorean Philos. 141 Nor needed fish the guileful hooks to fear. 1763Sir W. Jones Caissa Poems (1777) 139 Each guileful snare, and subtle art he tries. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad ii. 94 The God..in the town his guileful rage employed. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 234 Woe to the guileful friend who lied! 1879Butcher & Lang Odyss. 135 Guileful Circe of Aia would have stayed me in her halls. |