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Wile

Wile Meaning & Definition
Wile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wile?

[n] the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wile: chicanery | guile | shenanigan | trickery

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See Also | deceit | deception | dissembling | dissimulation | dupery | fraud | fraudulence | hoax | humbug | jugglery | put-on

Wile In Webster's Dictionary

\Wile\, n. [OE. wile, AS. w[=i]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. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. --Eph. vi. 11. Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. --Milton.
\Wile\, v. t. 1. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure. [R.] --Spenser. 2. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly. --Tennyson.

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