Antonyms for wiles

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wahyl

Phonetic Transcription : waɪl

Definition of wiles

Origin : mid-12c., wil "wile, trick," perhaps from Old North French *wile (Old French guile), or directly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse vel "trick, craft, fraud," vela "defraud"). Perhaps ultimately related to Old English wicca "wizard" (see Wicca). Lighter sense of "amorous or playful trick" is from c.1600. Wily is attested from c.1300.

noun cunning

Example sentences :

Al. “Hud a phyd,” “The valour of the forward Elphin had recourse to wiles and stratagems.”
Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

But with the captain her wiles were not so readily successful.
Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini

Who ever equalled us in all the wiles and schemes of mankind?
Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever

She has wiles and ways which, with her beauty, make her nigh irresistible.'
Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever

But for her and her wiles I had never been married to your father!
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

It is simply that the wiles of the East Wind are too much for its fundamental honesty.
Extract from : « The Mirror of the Sea » by Joseph Conrad

He will hold the reins and he will be proof against the wiles of your agents.
Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

I marked her artifices and her cunning, and resolved to be equal to all her wiles.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

What easy prey these poor people are to the wiles of the trader!
Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck

Asher Merriwell had been snared by the wiles of an adventuress, and he had married her.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell Down South » by Burt L. Standish

Synonyms for wiles

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