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Synonyms for guilefully
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : gahyl-fuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgaɪl fəl |
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Définition of guilefully
Origin :- c.1300, from guile + -ful. Nowadays only in poems and dictionaries. Related: Guilefully; guilefulness.
- As in shrewdly : adv astutely
- But “cursed be he that doth the work of God negligently or guilefully.”
- Extract from : « Sermons on the Card and Other Discourses » by Hugh Latimer
- Guilefully, persuasively, she edged her chair nearer to mine.
- Extract from : « The Book of Susan » by Lee Wilson Dodd
- She did not treat us guilefully again and we feasted in her house for a year.'
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy » by Padriac Colum
- The generous princes who made the stranger welcome have been guilefully lured to their doom.
- Extract from : « A Reading Book in Irish History » by P. W. Joyce
- "Beautiful girls get married," said Mr. Mactavish James guilefully, watching for her temper to send up rockets.
- Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
- Watch him guilefully trying to wriggle out of the self-imposed task of "A Tramp Abroad."
- Extract from : « The Ordeal of Mark Twain » by Van Wyck Brooks
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