n
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cunning ; duplicity ; artfulness
교활함 ; 사기 ; 간특함
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Jose used guile, not intelligence, to win the spelling bee : he cheated.
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Stuart was shocked by the guile of the automobile mechanic, who had poked a hole in his radiator and then told him that it had sprung a leak.
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To be guileless is to be innocent or naive. Guileless and artless are synonyms.
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The word beguile also means to deceive, but in a charming and not always bad way. Clarence found Mary's beauty so beguiling that he did anything she asked of him.
beguile 역시 속인다는 뜻이지만 매료시킨다는 의미도 있어서 항상 나쁜 뜻으로만 쓰이는 것은 아니다. 클래런스는 매리의 아름다움에 너무 나 매료돼서 그녀가 부탁하는 것은 무엇이나 들어주었다.