Child and Ploy

Child

Child noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.

Ploy and child are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Child".

Ploy

Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Ploy

Child and ploy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Child" instead a noun "Ploy".

Nearby Word: ployed

How words are described

old old child old ploy
good good child good ploy
alien alien child alien ploy
dead dead child dead ploy
Other adjectives: little, mere, last, oldest.

Both words in one sentence

  • The Fake Cutie Muteki Kanban Musume: Megumi is a full-grown woman that insists on dressing, speaking and acting like a cute child, sometimes to a sickening degree, as a ploy to get clients into her bakery.
  • Bald of Awesome Takashi Shimura takes this to extremes in Seven Samurai as ronin Kambei Shimada, who is first seen shaving his head as part of a ploy to rescue a child.
  • Western Animation / Rugrats She attempts to use the "Sweet, apologetic child" ploy to avoid punishment:Angelica: *smiling innocently* I'm so sorry.
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