All wile synonyms
wile
W w verb wile
- bewitch β If someone or something bewitches you, you are so attracted to them that you cannot think about anything else.
- delectate β to delight (a person)
- bring forth β to give birth to
- enamored β Totally in love.
- lead on β to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- carry away β to remove forcefully
- hexing β Present participle of hex.
- infatuating β to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
- enchant β Fill (someone) with great delight; charm.
- captivate β If you are captivated by someone or something, you find them fascinating and attractive.
noun wile
- cunning β Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
- guile β insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
- stratagem β a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
- angle β An angle is the difference in direction between two lines or surfaces. Angles are measured in degrees.
- artfulness β slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- artifice β Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- cheating β an instance of rule-breaking
- chicane β a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- chicanery β Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- contrivance β If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- craft β You can refer to a boat, a spacecraft, or an aircraft as a craft.
- craftiness β skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- deceit β Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
- deception β Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- device β A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
- dishonesty β lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
- dissimulation β the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- dodge β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- feint β 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.
- flimflam β a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- fraud β deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
- gambit β Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
- game β an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gimmick β an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
- hoax β something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- horseplay β rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- imposition β the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
- lure β anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- manoeuvre β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuver β a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- plot β a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- ploy β a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
- racket β a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- ruse β a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube.
- scam β a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- setup β Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- shenanigans β Usually, shenanigans. mischief; prankishness: Halloween shenanigans. deceit; trickery.
- skullduggery β skulduggery.