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Is this just a ploy by the Islamic State—or the beginning of the road to retaking Mosul?
The head of the prison says Figueroa fabricated the story as a ploy to get the Dutchman transferred.
Do they really not look around them when they hit the shutter, or is it all part of a ploy to attract more attention?
But when it becomes a transparent ploy for fame it drives fans away.
That brassy ploy had caught the Costa Ricans entirely off-guard and had knocked them off their stride.
And so destroy our only defences; it is, indeed, a wise ploy!
I give you the old word, Elrigmore: 'Claymore and the Gael '; for the rest—pardon me—you gentlemen are out of the ploy.
Na, na—his Excellency ken'd nought o' that ploy—it was a' managed atween Rashleigh and mysell.
I don't think he went on to describe any—it was mostly a ploy on my part to curry him or make him feel more at ease.
There is a misprint of 'employ' in Thomas Davies' edition, as before.
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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ploy, such as: device, maneuver, ruse, scheme, stratagem, and subterfuge.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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