Duplicity vs. Guile — What's the Difference?

Deceitfulness

Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.

The state of being double.

A trick or stratagem.

Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.

To beguile; deceive.

An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.

(uncountable) Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.

The quality or state of being twofold or double.

Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.

Intentional deceptiveness; double-dealing.

Obsolete form of gold

Doubleness; a twofold state.

Alternative form of gyle

Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.

To deceive, beguile, bewile.

The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.

A fraudulent or duplicitous representation

To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.

Acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

The quality of being crafty

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)