Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: used every device and stratagem he knew to prevent his son's marriage
Ploy
Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Usage example: asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party
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Synonyms for Ploy
Device is a synonym for ploy in game topic. You can use "Device" instead a noun "Ploy", if it concerns topics such as honest, tactic. popular alternative
Nearby Word: ployed
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Subverted when Chandra reveals that he anticipated their ploy and removed the device.
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This ploy was actually a plot device and a Running Gag on Three's Company It was actually intentional on the roommates' parts, in that that is the only way that a single man and two single women would be able to share residence was that the Ropers wouldn't allow it unless the man was gay.
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Tracking Device: used twice: in "De huilende professor", Bassie & Adriaan use a tracking device to trace Joris when he returns to the professor's hideout afther the police deliberately allowed him to escape from his prison cell (see also Trick-and-Follow Ploy below).
Source: Series / Bassie & Adriaan
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