Child
Child noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.
Ploy
Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Ploy
Nearby Word: ployed
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: The Fake Cutie -
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.
Source: Bald of Awesome -
She attempts to use the "Sweet, apologetic child" ploy to avoid punishment:Angelica: *smiling innocently* I'm so sorry.
Source: Western Animation / Rugrats
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