ploy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of PLOY

a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end <asking me to take her shopping turned out to be a ploy to get me to the surprise party>

Synonyms artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile

Related Words bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle; blind, front, smoke screen

a time or instance of carefree fun <wanted one grand ploy through Europe before settling down and raising a family>

Synonyms binge, frisk, frolic, gambol, idyll (also idyl), lark, ploy, revel, rollick, romp, spree

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