guilefuladj.
/ˈɡʌɪlfʊl/ Now only literary.
Full of guile; deceitful, treacherous.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective]
ficklea1000
hinderyeapc1000
swikelc1000
as right (also stiff, straight, crooked, etc.) as a ram's hornOE
fakenOE
swikefulc1100
frakelc1175
swikec1175
wrenchfulc1225
wielfulc1275
ginfulc1300
guileful13..
treacherousc1330
guilesomea1382
guilousc1384
enginousa1393
deceivant1393
treacherc1400
serpentinec1422
deceivousa1425
guilyc1430
beguilous1483
slapea1500
fallacious1509
treget1519
gaudya1529
beguileful1530
Spanish1530
juggling?1531
snakish1532
prestigious?1534
knack-hardy1549
pratting1570
fogging1585
snakya1586
abusive1595
faithless1597
faiterous1600
guiled1600
trompant1605
amusing1609
braida1616
dodging1625
Ulyssean1639
tricksome1648
knackish1660
hocus-pocus1668
bubbling1675
rusé1689
tricking1697
trickish1705
lurching1728
tricksy1766
trickful1775
tricky1786
slippy1828
shirky1847
dodgy1861
sidewinding1902
slithery1902
hyping1968
deceiteous-
13.. K. Alis. 444 Swithe blithe was Olimpias Of Neptanabus gileful has.
c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 116 A noþer gyelful persecucioun is don bi eritykis and false breþeren.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea vii. 16 Thei ben maad as a gylful [a1425 L.V. gileful] bowe.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 151 Thei ben double and gileful.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 50 Turgesius deyde by gylefull wyles of women.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. &&.i His enmyes whiche haue layde in his waye gyle full baytes.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xi. 166 All men will know that he relied vpon guilefull reasons.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 44 Thus sought the dire Enchauntress in his minde Her guilefull bayt to haue embosomed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. i. 77 By guilefull faire words, Peace may be obtayn'd.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. xxvii. 152 He whets her wrath with many a guilefull word.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 508 Nor needed Fish the guileful Hooks to fear.
1772 W. Jones Poems 167 Each guileful snare, and subtle art he tries.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ii. 94 The God..in the town his guileful rage employed.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 248 Woe to the guileful friend who lied!
1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 135 Guileful Circe of Aia would have stayed me in her halls.
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