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guilefully

/gahyl-fuhl/US // ˈgaɪl fəl //

狡猾地,巧妙地,诡秘地,狡诈地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.

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Examples

  • She was preternaturally animated and demonstrative at the station—your sex's little guileful way ever since the world began.

  • Loki became guileful from that wicked woman; thence in the world are all giantesses come.

  • There drank the courtiers wine in their Valhall—but the guileful ones silence kept—the Huns' wrath they feared.

  • And now will I do so no more, lest I become a guileful woman, with nought good in me save the fairness of my body.

  • As he outlined his guileful proposition the scowls of his listeners gave way to grins of full approval and admiration.