Wile
[waɪl]
Definition
(n.) A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.
(v. t.) To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.
(v. t.) To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.
Typist: Winfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Trick, stratagem, cheat, fraud, artifice, chouse, imposture, deceit, imposition, deception, ruse, dodge, fetch, manœuvre, cunning contrivance, crafty device.
Typed by Gwendolyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Guile, craft, cunning, artifice, art, device, machination, plot, design,stratagem
ANT:Openness, candor, ingenuousness, friendliness, frankness, artlessness
Checker: Sheena
Definition
n. a trick: a sly artifice.—v.t. to beguile inveigle: coax cajole: to make to pass easily or pleasantly (confused with while).—adj. Wile′ful full of wiles.
Inputed by Addie
Examples
- Mrs Lammle was proceeding with every reassuring wile, when the head of that young lady suddenly went back against the wall again and her eyes closed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The red--(Well then, Polly, the _fair_) hair, the tongue of guile, and brain of wile, are all come down by inheritance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Say it again, you wile, owdacious fellow! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To wile away the time till your father comes,' he said,--'pray is there much robbing and murdering of seamen about the water-side now? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All her lies and her schemes, and her selfishness and her wiles, all her wit and genius had come to this bankruptcy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My child, he said reprovingly, do not make ill blood between these two men by your woman's wiles. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typed by Agatha