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WILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
Synonyms:
chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("wile" is a kind of...):
deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wile"):
dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)
jugglery (artful trickery designed to achieve an end)
Derivation:
wily (marked by skill in deception)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wile
