Excuse and Ploy

Excuse

Excuse noun - An explanation that frees one from fault or blame.

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

Nearby Words: excusing, excused, excusable

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

old	old excuse	old ploy
good	good excuse	good ploy
exact	exact excuse	exact ploy
elaborate	elaborate excuse	elaborate ploy
Other adjectives: better, similar, common, standard, obvious, simple, cheap, popular, massive, little, bad, main, transparent, crazy, classic, last.

Much like everything else involving Mettaton, this is a hint that all his apparent threat is a ploy by Alphys to have an excuse to save you.

Source: Magic Countdown
When told how irresponsible he's being, his excuse is that it's a just ploy to draw enemies close for an ambush.

Source: Heavy Sleeper
And Sakura doesn't need to be used as an excuse, and for you to attempt to use her grief as a ploy to get Sasuke's attention disgusts me.

Source: The Reason You Suck Speech / Fanfic

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