'Wile' definitions:
Definition of 'wile'
(from WordNet)
noun
The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]
Definition of 'Wile'
From: GCIDE
- Wile \Wile\, v. t.
- 1. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure. [R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wile'
From: GCIDE
- Wile \Wile\, n. [OE. wile, AS. w[imac]l; cf. Icel. v?l, v[ae]l. Cf. Guile.] A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement. [1913 Webster]
- Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. --Eph. vi. 11. [1913 Webster]
- Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wile'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acuteness,
- allure,
- ambidexterity,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- captivate,
- catch,
- charm,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- consecrate to,
- conspiracy,
- consume,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dedicate to,
- design,
- device,
- devote,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- draw,
- duplicity,
- employ,
- enchant,
- expedient,
- expend,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fascinate,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- fleet,
- foxiness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- give over to,
- give to,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- improbity,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- Italian hand,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- Machiavellianism,
- magnetize,
- maneuver,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- put in,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resourcefulness,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- spend,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- take,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- two-facedness,
- use up,
- wariness,
- while,
- while away,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit