Ploy
Ploy noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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Synonyms for Ploy
Tricks and ploy are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Tricks" with "Ploy", this nouns are similar.
Nearby Word: ployed
Tricks
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However, once Day 8 rolls around, it becomes obvious that it was a ploy to get his pardon, as he is back to his old tricks.
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Using Indy Ploy and his memory of the place, Thorin tricks Smaug into lighting the furnaces of the Dwarven forgeries in order to pour molten gold into a statue cast.
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