ploy
noun
a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.
counterploy
-
a word derived from
ploy.
Example Sentences
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During the Victorian championships last week, Shields had every reason to congratulate himself on his counterploy.
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There, McGeorge Bundy, General Earle Wheeler and General Curtis LeMay, among others, devised ploy and counterploy for a bombing scenario with equally negative results.
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Soviet diplomats, by now well-accustomed to confrontations with Jewish organizations over the treatment of Soviet Jews, quickly devised a counterploy: they refused to accept delivery and dumped the matzoth into the laps of the U.S.
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After they cover a story, Berrigan has to debrief them in a game of delicate ploy and diffident counterploy.
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Through the bitter German winter of 1948, West Berliners were kept alive by the Berlin airlift, a dramatic cold war counterploy to surmount a Soviet-inspired blockade of the city.
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