Measure and Ploy

Measure

Measure noun - An action planned or taken to achieve a desired result.

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

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

good	good measure	good ploy
particular	particular measure	particular ploy
common	common measure	common ploy
standard	standard measure	standard ploy
Other adjectives: popular, effective, main, deliberate, necessary, final, desperate, last, insane, intentional, defensive.

The ploy doesn't quite work, but the protagonist manages to distract everyone long enough to run out to the parking lot, get in his Chevrolet, and obtain a measure of revenge by pretending to run the rednecks down when they come out to chase him...before making his escape and heading for Omaha.

Source: Let's You and Him Fight
Borders on Indy Ploy for charging in with no other plan and Moral Dissonance when you realized that our hero had no problem killing someone and just happened to land on the accepted side of What Measure Is a Non-Human?.

Source: "How Did You Know?" "I Didn't."

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