Ploy
Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Ploy
Schemes and ploy are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Schemes" with "Ploy", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: ployed
Schemes
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- Indy Ploy: Locke's specialty is improvising, and even his long-term schemes include a lot of improvisation, especially when they start to fall apart.
Source: Literature / Gentleman Bastard - Plots to look for a stolen movie script in what is really a ploy to keep them out of the way of an important celebrity dinner at the studio, only for the script to be stolen for real by Pinky and the Brain, in one of their usual harebrained Take Over the World schemes.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Animaniacs - He is an excellent swordsman, but uses his blades for defense and as tools, taking enemies down with nonlethal attacks and various Indy Ploy schemes.
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