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 Translation for 'guile' from English to Russian
NOUN   a guile | guiles
VERB   to guile | guiled | guiled
guiling | guiles
SYNO chicane | chicanery | craft | ...
коварство {с}guile
unverified ухищрение {с}guile
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Translation for 'guile' from English to Russian

guile
коварство {с}

unverified ухищрение {с}
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Usage Examples English
  • El Borak is the central character of the series, frequently attempting to minimise tribal wars and conflict in the region through guile or direct violence.
  • Lock was a boyhood hero of Ron Barassi. Barassi described Lock as someone who "combined strength with guile and football intelligence" and "was dashing and played with flair".
  • Football writer Brian Glanville, discussing Billy Wright's time at Arsenal, wrote: "he had neither the guile nor the authority to make things work and he reacted almost childishly to criticism".
  • Pumpkin is tricky and full of guile, a classmate of Assada in the real world.
  • England defeated India 3–0 with one match rained off in a four-match series. India had no answer to the pace of Fred Trueman and the guile of Alec Bedser, who between them took 49 Test wickets.

  • Bestall is regarded as "perhaps the greatest name on Town's roll-call – a diminutive craftsman full of guile and possessed of outstanding constructive qualities".
  • A band of innocents, we knew no guile.
  • He was a traditional target man for most of his career who earned the nickname 'Mick The Flick' for his propensity to move the ball quickly and with guile when he received it.
  • Shakespeare's contemporary Edmund Spenser also refers to the story in "The Faerie Queene", writing of the "cruel crafty" creature "which, in false grief, hiding his harmful guile / Doth weep full sore, and sheddeth tender tears.
  • In the children's comedy "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men" (1989–94), the character is parodied as a "wide boy" (one who lives by wit and guile) called Much the Mini-Mart Manager's Son.

  • 0 of Guile, a new attempt at implementing Elisp on the Guile compiler tower and replacing Emacs's Elisp implementation with that of libguile has begun and made significant progress through Google Summer of Code projects.
  • 68th AA Regiment was provided with 60 riflemen from training regiments to supplement its own spare men for these fighting patrols, who were instructed to 'meet guile with guile' to 'ruthlessly hunt down' highly trained German paratroopers.
  • She later played Nellie Cotterill in the 1973 original London production of "The Card", a musical written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which chronicled the rise of the title character from washerwoman's son to mayor of a Northern British town through initiative, guile, and luck.
  • He called up every available warrior, garrisoned every pass leading to his capital, and with the guile for which he was famous, prepared traps into which he planned to lead his aggressors.
  • The Aditya have been described in the Rig Veda as bright and pure as streams of water, free from all guile and falsehood, blameless, perfect.

  • Edgecombe realized that "Heron" was too slow to catch enemy cruisers; instead he decided to use guile.
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