Guile definition
An example of guile is when you distract your friend from the fact that you are half hour late to a meeting by immediately turning on the charm and launching into a fascinating story.
Origin of guile
- Middle English from Old French of Germanic origin Old English wigle divination, sorcery
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wigila (“ruse”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
From Wiktionary