wiles

wiles
n
tricks, stratagems, ruses, ploys, devices, contrivances, guile, manoeuvres, subterfuge, cunning, deceit, deception, cheating, trickery, fraud, craftiness, artfulness, chicanery
COLLOQ. dodges

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[plural noun]
trickery, artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, cunning, guile, slyness

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▶ plural noun TRICKS, ruses, ploys, schemes, dodges, manoeuvres, subterfuges, artifices; guile, artfulness, cunning, craftiness.

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wiles UK [waɪlz] US noun [plural]
ways of persuading or tricking someone so that they do what you want
Thesaurus: methods used to persuade someonesynonym

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/ˈwajəlz/ noun [plural]
: clever tricks that you use to get what you want

She used her feminine wiles to entice him to give her the job.

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wiles [wiles] [waɪlz] [waɪlz] noun plural
clever tricks that sb uses in order to get what they want or to make sb behave in a particular way

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She used all her feminine wiles on Sam in order to get her way.


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  • wiles — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ devious or cunning stratagems. ORIGIN perhaps related to an Old Norse word meaning craft …   English terms dictionary

  • wiles — [[t]wa͟ɪlz[/t]] N PLURAL: usu supp N, N of n Wiles are clever tricks that people, especially women, use to persuade other people to do something. She claimed that women use their feminine wiles to get on …   English dictionary

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