Ploy and Shift

Ploy

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

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

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Ploy and shift are semantically related in trick topic. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Shift".

Nearby Words: shifting, shifted, shifty, shiftiness, shifter

similar	similar ploy	similar shift
obvious	obvious ploy	obvious shift
simple	simple ploy	simple shift
massive	massive ploy	massive shift
Other adjectives: main, deliberate, political, final, odd, last, occasional.

Subverted in Murder in the Vicarage, where both Lawrence Redding and Anne Protheroe frame themselves for the murder of Colonel Protheroe and admit, in turn, to being responsible (in an unusual ploy to actually shift blame from both of them)

Source: Signature Style / Literature

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