Word Meanings - MALENGINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Evil machination; guile; deceit. Gower.

Related words: (words related to MALENGINE)

• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• DECEITLESS
  Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
• GUILEFUL
  Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.
• GUILELESS
  Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.
• MACHINATION
  1. The act of machinating. Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come to naught. Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. Macaulay.
• GUILE
  Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• DECEIT
  Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation. Syn. -- Deception; fraud; imposition; duplicity;
• DECEITFULNESS
  1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. 2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. 3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• BEGUILE
  1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Gen. iii. 13. 2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. Shak.
• BEGUILEMENT
  The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.
• SELF-DECEIT
  The act of deceiving one's self, or the state of being self- deceived; self-deception.
• BEGUILER
  One who, or that which, beguiles.