Thesaurus / stratagem
other words for stratagem
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- gimmick
- one-upmanship
- ploy
- ruse
- subterfuge
- wile
- action
- angle
- artifice
- bit
- brainchild
- child
- con
- deception
- device
- dodge
- feint
- gambit
- game
- gamesmanship
- intrigue
- layout
- maneuver
- method
- pitch
- plan
- play
- plot
- pretext
- proposition
- racket
- scenario
- scene
- scheme
- setup
- shift
- slant
- stall
- story
- switch
- twist
- booby trap
- game plan
- grift
- little game
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The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
But I always suspected it was a stratagem on his part to avoid playing, and that nothing really ailed him.
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Aunty Rosa had credited him in the past with petty cunning and stratagem that had never entered into his head.
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Lady Arabella Seymour escaped from confinement in the tower of London by stratagem.
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Rabelais was not more cunning when he hit upon his stratagem for getting carried to Paris.
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Why did she not insist on informing her husband at least of her cousin's lapse, of her ignoble stratagem?
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A mono-cell, the amoeba, was able to reproduce itself by the simple stratagem of sub-division.
French took fort Olivo by stratagem, and captured 900 Spaniards without firing a gun.
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I have seen the Editor of the Mercury, and by a stratagem I became possessed of an advanced copy of the paper.
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This innocent stratagem was tried in vain; the poor girl was so patient, so full of compassion for me.
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