Cover and Ploy

Cover

Cover noun - A piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents.

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

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

old	old cover	old ploy
good	good cover	good ploy
elaborate	elaborate cover	elaborate ploy
better	better cover	better ploy
Other adjectives: similar, standard, fake, simple, popular, bad, main, famous, final, last.

The ploy apparently worked - despite probably having about as much objectionable content in it as Happy Hour did, the self-titled album had no such warning on the cover.

Source: Music / King Missile
The entire film is a ploy to get the assassins killed and fake his death to cover his own tracks.

Source: Batman Gambit / Live-Action Films
It gets even more complicated: As it turns out, the theft of said painting was a cover-up of Derren's ploy to steal a different painting.

Source: Creator / Derren Brown

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