Ploy and Resort

Ploy

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

Resort noun - A place for spending time or for socializing.

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Ploy and resort are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Resort".

Nearby Words: resorting, resorted

old	old ploy	old resort
particular	particular ploy	particular resort
common	common ploy	common resort
cheap	cheap ploy	cheap resort
Other adjectives: popular, massive, little, main, famous, necessary, final, desperate, last, failed.

When Sergio shows up, Chrysalis notes that dragons can't show love, and must resort to a verbal ploy to engineer their escape.

Source: Comic Book / My Little Pony: Fiendship Is Magic
In the pre-Crisis story "Earth's First Green Lantern," Abin Sur used a spaceship in a ploy to trap a parasitic alien by convincing it that his ring had run out of power (since, of course, a Green Lantern would only resort to using a spaceship if he couldn't use his ring).

Source: Continuity Drift
Clock King: Kirei even comments on how organized and precise Lupin can be in regards to heists, assuming that Lupin isn't forced to resort to the Indy Ploy.

Source: Fan Fic / Just An Unorthodox Thief

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