Ploy and Story

Ploy

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

Story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.

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Ploy and story are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Story".

Nearby Words: storey, storied, storyline

old	old ploy	old story
good	good ploy	good story
particular	particular ploy	particular story
better	better ploy	better story
Other adjectives: similar, typical, common, standard, fake, simple, popular, little, bad, main, famous, final, classic, basic, last, ongoing.

Sherlock Holmes uses a version of the ploy in his first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia".

Source: Trick-and-Follow Ploy
Johnny, who hears this story from Uncle Remus, later uses a similar ploy against the Favers brothers, begging them not to tell their mother about Ginny giving him her puppy.

Source: Unishment
Long story short, it was all a Soviet ploy to expose Kreutzmann, and when the coffin is opened in the West, it's him in it - dead - instead of the Colonel.

Source: Useful Notes / Berlin Wall

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