Ploys [noun]
Definition of Ploys:
game, trick
Synonyms of Ploys:
● Maneuver
● Tactic
● Ruse
● Device
● Scheme
● Dodge
● Play
● Move
● Feint
● Artifice
● Wile
● Gambit
Opposite/Antonyms of Ploys:
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Sentence/Example of Ploys:
There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before.
If I was a stone or two lighter, and had one to look after the shop, it's off on this ploy I would be too.
He put the question roughly, for nobody likes to lose a ploy.
There were more again who could never bear to be absent from any ploy: Pepa Frias, Lola, and a few more.
The night before they touched at Naples Marcella and Louis arranged what she called a "ploy."
Thoost aye right ready for a ploy, said his wife, a deal better than honest work.
You come up the morn's nicht at eight, afore the post comes, and ye'll see the ploy when she gets her valenteen.
I give you the old word, Elrigmore: 'Claymore and the Gael '; for the rest—pardon me—you gentlemen are out of the ploy.
Na, na—his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy—it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.
I don't think he went on to describe any—it was mostly a ploy on my part to curry him or make him feel more at ease.