Means and Ploy

Means

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

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

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

old	old means	old ploy
good	good means	good ploy
better	better means	better ploy
similar	similar means	similar ploy
Other adjectives: common, standard, many, dead, obvious, popular, effective, little, main, necessary, psychological, desperate, convoluted.

Bane's hostage ploy: any outside attempt to interfere with his plan means the bomb in Gotham kills everyone.

Source: Morton's Fork
As it turns out, her provocative teasing of Araragi is probably a ploy to get Araragi to forget about Senjogahara, even if that means potentially having to seduce him.

Source: Light Novel / Bakemonogatari
Clever villains will use this as a demoralizing ploy on the heroes, surely Utopia Justifies the Means if the result is a more civilized (or extinct) human race?

Source: Post-Historical Trauma

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