Ploy and Show

Ploy

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

Show noun - An outward and often exaggerated indication of something abstract (as a feeling) for effect.

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Ploy and show are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Show".

Nearby Words: showy, showed, showing, showcase, shown

old	old ploy	old show
good	good ploy	good show
particular	particular ploy	particular show
better	better ploy	better show
Other adjectives: similar, typical, standard, fake, popular, successful, little, bad, main, famous, political, final, classic, last.

Indy Ploy: Done by the show in Season 2 when Ingrid Wiese, the female Schmo in the dating show, figured out that everything was fake.

Source: Series / The Joe Schmo Show
The kid's show was in fact a ploy by the crooked producer to trick her into transitioning into hardcore interracial porn.

Source: Parent Service
It's even believed that the whole show was a Springtime for Hitler ploy Gone Horribly Wrong.

Source: Deader Than Disco / Western Animation

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Ploy & Show. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ploy/show>.

Show or Ploy. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ploy/show.

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