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Wile

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Noun

1. chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wile

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noun
1. 
trickery, cunning, or craftiness
2. (usually plural)
an artful or seductive trick or ploy
verb
3. (transitive)
to lure, beguile, or entice

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Wile

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noun
1. 
a sly trick; deceitful artifice; stratagem
2. 
a beguiling or coquettish trick
usually used in pl.
3.  Rare
craftiness; guile
verb transitiveWord forms: wiled or ˈwiling
4. 
to beguile; lure

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wile

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n.
1. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare.
2. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure: the wiles of a skilled negotiator.
tr.v. wiled, wil·ing, wiles
1. To influence or lead by means of wiles; entice: "Could the Erl-king's Daughter have revealed herself to me ... she might have wiled me by the hand into the dimmest forests upon earth" (Thomas De Quincey).
2. To pass (time) agreeably: wile away a Sunday afternoon.

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