All ploy synonyms

noun ploy

• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• gimmick — an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
• covin — a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another
• fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
• curveball — a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit
• gambit — Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
• cunningness — skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
• cleanup — A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• distractor — a person or thing that distracts the attention.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• cover story — a story that is alluded to or illustrated on the cover of a magazine
• kicker — a person or thing that kicks.
• feint — a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• machination — an act or instance of machinating.
• device — A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
• hocuspocus — Alternative spelling of hocus-pocus.
• jig — a contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.
• quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
• fig leaf — the leaf of a fig tree.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• frame-up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• generalship — skill as commander of a large military force or unit.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.