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ploy

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Synonyms and Antonyms of ploy

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party

Synonyms of ploy

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

Words Related to ploy

bluff, end run, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen

Phrases Synonymous with ploy

sleight of hand

2 a time or instance of carefree fun

wanted one grand ploy through Europe before settling down and raising a family

Synonyms of ploy

binge, fling, frisk, frolic, gambol, idyll (also idyl), lark, revel, rollick, romp, spree

Words Related to ploy

caper, escapade, prank

bender, brannigan, bum, bust, carouse, souse, splore [Scottish], toot

antic, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s)

festivity, merriment, merrymaking

enjoyment, indulgence, pleasure, self-indulgence

amusement, diversion, entertainment, recreation

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