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1. Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
   - craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness
    
2. The quality of being crafty
   - craftiness, deceitfulness
    
3. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
   - trickery, chicanery, chicane, wile, shenanigan

Derived forms: guiles

Type of: astuteness, deceit, deception, disingenuousness, dissembling, dissimulation, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness

Encyclopedia: Guile