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[syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wile \Wile\, v. t.
1. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to
allure. [R.] --Spenser.
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2. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while
away; to cause to pass pleasantly. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wile \Wile\, n. [OE. wile, AS. w[imac]l; cf. Icel. v?l, v[ae]l.
Cf. Guile.]
A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a
sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
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Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil. --Eph. vi. 11.
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Not more almighty to resist our might,
Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles.
--Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wile
n 1: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract
money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
guile, wile, shenanigan]