Front and Ploy

Front

Front noun - A forward part or surface.

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

Nearby Words: fronted, frontal, frontline, frontage, fronting

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

Nearby Word: ployed

good	good front	good ploy
common	common front	common ploy
fake	fake front	fake ploy
bad	bad front	bad ploy
Other adjectives: main, deliberate, political, mere, soviet, defensive.

This is then subverted, however, dipping back into the faux side as it's all just a ploy to build Neiman's trust up to then humiliate him in front of the jazz community.

Source: Film / Whiplash
Palamedes saw right through the ploy, and ensured that Odysseus didn't dodge the draft by dropping his baby boy Telemachus in front of the plough's path.

Source: Obfuscating Insanity
The results speak for themselves... El Cid Ploy: A variation is done by Sokullu Mehmet Pasha when Suleiman the Magnificent dies on the way to the front.

Source: Literature / Now Blooms the Tudor Rose

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