ploy
Example Sentences
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Their poverty, the fruit of Salieri’s malicious ploys, tests the limits of their endurance.
From Los Angeles Times
A ploy to ensure he’d be positively exhausted when we boarded the ship and entered our cabin.
From Literature
As it turns out, that was exactly what made “One Mike” such a useful ploy.
But the author said her cancer update "wasn't a ploy to get sympathy-sales for release day".
From BBC
I am especially intrigued by China’s repeat of its rare-earth ploy.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
