Guileful
Guileful adjective - Clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means.
Usage example: tried to fix the game with a guileful plot to sabotage the other team's bats, but the umpire caught them
Machiavellian and guileful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Machiavellian" instead an adjective "Guileful".
Machiavellian
Machiavellian adjective - Not guided by or showing a concern for what is right.
Guileful and Machiavellian are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Guileful" instead an adjective "Machiavellian".
Nearby Word: Machiavellianism
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sly and guileful
- sly and Machiavellian
- artful and guileful
- artful and Machiavellian
- designing and guileful
- designing and Machiavellian
- crafty and guileful
- crafty and Machiavellian
- insidious and guileful
- insidious and Machiavellian
- foxy and guileful
- foxy and Machiavellian
- cunning and guileful
- cunning and Machiavellian
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