Ploy and Talk

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

Talk noun - A usually formal discourse delivered to an audience.

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Ploy and talk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Talk".

Nearby Words: talking, talkative, talker, talkie

good	good ploy	good talk
similar	similar ploy	similar talk
standard	standard ploy	standard talk
dead	dead ploy	dead talk
Other adjectives: simple, cheap, little, secret, crazy, political, final, last, occasional.

Bailey at first thinks Joe is going to talk about how disappointed Bailey's father would be if he were still alive, but Joe reveals he would say instead, "Not you, too." Bailey thinks this is just another ploy, until he sees how shocked Charlie, Julia and especially Claudia are at the news.

Source: In the Blood
Miller, however, assumes that the entire thing was a good-cop-bad-cop ploy in order to make him grateful and willing to talk to the officer, which explains his lack of remorse when he later kills him in cold blood.

Source: Literature / Patriot Games
Alone With Prisoner Ploy - The goal is to talk with the prisoner without blowing your cover.

Source: The Plan

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