About The Word Wile
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Wile
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Wile: 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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