guile
A guileful negotiator, he was able to talk the seller down from his asking price.
Some people conduct themselves in strategic, guileful ways, looking out for their own best interests.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
misleadingly
perjured
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous
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