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wilenoun
Synonyms:
allurement, beguilementwilenoun
To entice or lure
He was seduced by her wiles.
Synonyms:
allurement, beguilement
English Synonyms and Antonyms
wile
A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.
E'en children followed with endearing wile.
Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.
Synonyms:
art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trickAntonyms:
artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
wile
Synonyms:
guile, craft, cunning, artifice, art, device, machination, plot, design, stratagemAntonyms:
openness, candor, ingenuousness, friendliness, frankness, artlessness
Princeton's WordNet
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigannoun
the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Synonyms:
deceitfulness, trickery, cunning, hocus-pocus, devilment, rascality, skullduggery, devilry, jiggery-pokery, roguishness, slickness, mischief-making, chicanery, mischievousness, shenanigan, craftiness, guile, hanky panky, foxiness, roguery, wiliness, craft, mischief, slyness, deviltry, skulduggery, chicane
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WILE
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #245 | design | |
| #338 | art | |
| #1634 | device | |
| #3870 | plot | |
| #4241 | craft | |
| #4246 | blind | |
| #4480 | fraud | |
| #4626 | dodge | |
| #6230 | cheat | |
| #7155 | invention | |
| #7167 | trick | |
| #23550 | maneuver | |
| #24690 | mischief | |
| #25925 | guile | |
| #26623 | cunning | |
| #35918 | finesse | |
| #43818 | ruse | |
| #45134 | artifice | |
| #56510 | trickery | |
| #63007 | wile | |
| #63841 | chicane | |
| #79016 | subterfuge | |
| #87541 | contrivance | |
| #98243 | stratagem | |
| #125789 | chicanery | |
| #140436 | skullduggery | |
| #155798 | craftiness | |
| #183563 | imposture | |
| #211784 | deceitfulness | |
| #234799 | slickness | |
| #286612 | machination | |
| #290312 | skulduggery | |
| #304004 | allurement |
How to use wile in a sentence?
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers:
Wile E. Coyote moment.
No one — not the bullpen of the New York Mets, not the French army, not Wile E. Coyote, not even Al Gore — is better at squandering a commanding lead than the Queen of Coasting, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And nobody is better at handing her adversaries talking points to undermine trust, on emails, on the Clinton Foundation, on her own refusal to do something as simple as talking to the reporters who cover her every day.
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