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wilenoun a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endhad to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand the use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an endit took both wile and cajolery to talk him into it artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, trickery artfulness, caginess(also cageyness), craftiness, cunning, deviousness, foxiness, oiliness, shadiness, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, treachery, underhandedness, wilinesscrookedness, crookery, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, guile, guilefulness, hypocrisy, insincerityfakery, humbuggery, imposture, quackerydirty pool, dirty tricksdesign, plotting, scheming, secrecy, stealth artlessness, forthrightness, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sinceritycandidness, candor, directness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness to attract or delight as if by magicher stories of the Old South could wile anyone allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, fascinate, kill, magnetize, witch(archaic) disarm, draw, entice, lure, pull, seduce, temptdelight, gratify, pleasearrest, enrapture, enthrall(or enthral), entranceappeal (to), interest, intriguebeckon, court, invite, solicit, woo disgust, offend, repel, revoltannoy, displease, irkbore, tire, weary n.trick, ruse, stratagem, maneuver, artifice, wile, feint mean an indirect means to gain an end.trick may imply deception, roguishness, illusion, and either an evil or harmless end.the tricks of the trade ruse stresses an attempt to mislead by a false impression.the ruses of smugglers stratagem implies a ruse used to entrap, outwit, circumvent, or surprise an opponent or enemy.the stratagem-filled game maneuver suggests adroit and skillful avoidance of difficulty.last-minute maneuvers to avert bankruptcy artifice implies ingenious contrivance or invention.the clever artifices of the stage wile suggests an attempt to entrap or deceive with false allurements.used all of his wiles to ingratiate himself feint implies a diversion or distraction of attention away from one's real intent.a feint toward the enemy's left flank in the 12th century |