Defense and Ploy

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Defense

Defense noun - Means or method of defending.
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Ploy and defense are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Defense".
Nearby Words: defend, defence, defenseless, defensive, defensible

Ploy

Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Defense and ploy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defense" instead a noun "Ploy".
Nearby Word: ployed

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  • The truth is that she did it in self-defense, and it's all part of an ongoing ploy to keep Jude out of power in the asylum.
    Source: Interrogation Montage
  • Series / Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 Half the time when she's acting nice, it winds up a ploy to lower someone's defense, which makes the occasions where she seems to genuinely be doing something good all the more ambiguous.
    Source: Series / Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
  • Insanity Defense: Accountant Berlaga gets himself committed as a ploy to evade the "purging" of Hercules.
    Source: Literature / The Little Golden Calf
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