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Word | Wile |
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) / A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception / devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants. / a trick or stratagem intended to ensnare or deceive; also : a beguiling or playful trick / skill in outwitting : trickery, guile / to lure by or as if by a magic spell : entice / [by alteration] : while, | |
Usage | ⇒ Claura used all her wiles to win him ⇒ had to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner ⇒ It is the Africans who are moving, shifting, thinking, plotting, and therefore digging their own entrenchment in this land upon which so many others have, through wiles and stratagems of their own, en |
Synonyms | artifice, stratagem, trick, ruse, subterfuge, dodge, deception, device, manoeuvre, ploy, trickery, chicanery, deceit, guile, intrigue, plot, chicane, fraud, hoax, machination, |
Antonyms | stupidity, artlessness, folly, naivety, absurdity, advise, baloney, blamelessness, bosh, bunkum, captivation, chastity, childishness, clarity, cleanness, credulity, drollery, dullness, ease, easiness, |
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