wile – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
wile
v.
plan a scheme; cheat, deceive; tempt, entice; pass time (when used as "wile away")
n.
trick, cunning; lure, enticement
WILE
WILE may refer to:
- WILE (AM), a radio station (1270 AM) licensed to Cambridge, Ohio, United States
- WILE-FM, a radio station (97.7 FM) licensed to Byesville, Ohio, United States
Wile
wile
Noun
1. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
(synonym) trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, shenanigan
(hypernym) deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
(hyponym) fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
Wile
(v. t.)
To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
(v. t.)
To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
(n.)
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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wile
Synonyms and related words:
Italian hand, Machiavellianism, acuteness, allure, ambidexterity, art, artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, bad faith, bag of tricks, beguile, bestow, bewitch, blind, bluff, bosey, cageyness, callidity, canniness, captivate, catch, charm, chicane, chicanery, chouse, cleverness, consecrate to, conspiracy, consume, contrivance, coup, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, curve, curve-ball, cute trick, deceit, deceitfulness, dedicate to, design, device, devote, dirty deal, dirty trick, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, double-dealing, doubleness, doubleness of heart, draw, duplicity, employ, enchant, expedient, expend, faithlessness, fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fascinate, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, fine Italian hand, finesse, fleet, foxiness, gambit, game, gamesmanship, gimmick, give over to, give to, googly, grift, guile, hocus-pocus, improbity, ingeniousness, insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery, little game, low cunning, magnetize, maneuver, move, one-upmanship, pass, plot, ploy, put in, racket, readiness, red herring, resourcefulness, ruse, satanic cunning, scheme, scurvy trick, sharpness, shift, shiftiness, shrewdness, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, slipperiness, slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, spend, stealth, stealthiness, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, tactic, take, treachery, trick, trickery, trickiness, two-facedness, use up, wariness, while, while away, wiles, wiliness, wily device, wit
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
