guilefully
Example Sentences
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They have a decidedly different relationship to the absurd cascades of information than do the supposed “curators” of information who guilefully sell wonder while retaining none of it themselves.
From Newsweek
Hitchens contends that Britain guilefully dominated the relationship by appealing to ties of blood, class, nostalgia and a common tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is not to imply that the play is ever a bore; it is, instead guilefully charged with mesmeric fascinations.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his perfect legislative world, he could calibrate bills so cleverly, pack them so guilefully, that he would look good if Clinton signed and Clinton would look bad if he didn't.
From Time Magazine Archive
But she quickly recovered herself, "Raphael is too charming," she said guilefully, "and were it not that his heart is given to the beautiful Margherita I might be tempted to angle for it."
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
