ploys

Meaning of ploys

plural noun

a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

late 17th century (originally Scots and northern English in the sense ‘pastime’): of unknown origin. The notion of ‘a calculated plan’ dates from the 1950s.

Information about ploys

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of ploys is: ploy.
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Hyphenation of ploys

ploys

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • ploys is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

ploys synonyms

Meaning an action intended to deceive someone; a trick:

ruse

Meaning an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end:

tactic

Meaning an act that initiates or advances a process or plan:

move

Meaning a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim:

device

Meaning a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end:

stratagem

Meaning a secret or underhand plan; a plot:

scheme

Meaning a cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone:

trick

Meaning an act or remark that is calculated to gain an advantage, especially at the outset of a situation:

gambit

Meaning the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality:

contrivance

Meaning a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral:

expedient

Meaning a cunning trick or dishonest act, in particular one intended to avoid something unpleasant:

dodge

Meaning deceit used in order to achieve one's goal:

subterfuge

Meaning a secret and clever plan or trick:

game

Meaning devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants:

wile

Meaning a clever or amusing scheme, idea, or trick:

wheeze

Meaning a slight change in position, direction, or tendency:

shift

Anagrams of ploys

polys, Pylos, slopy

Words that rhyme with ploys

loys, Aloys, Zircaloys, zircaloys, accloys, cloys, overcloys, saveloys, Permalloys, alloys, ferroalloys, permalloys, superalloys, zircoloys, coemploys, counterploys, deploys, disemploys, employs, misemploys, redeploys, reemploys

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