wile
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
deceitful cunning; trickery.
to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.): The music wiled him from his study.
wile away, to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
Origin of wile
1synonym study For wile
Other words for wile
Other words from wile
- outwile, verb (used with object), out·wiled, out·wil·ing.
Words that may be confused with wile
- while, wile
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How to use wile in a sentence
Wiles initially denied that he had performed as Mona Sinclair to the Winston-Salem Journal before eventually coming clean.
Eventually though, Wiles was suspended for "conduct unbecoming to a Promoter of the Miss Gay America pageant system."
Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony.
For Wiles, appearing in Web series has been an enriching experience.
Introducing ‘School of Thrones’: ‘Game of Thrones’ Parody Web Series | Molly Taylor | March 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe loved men and sex, and enjoyed using feminine wiles, and she encouraged women not to give up on any of that, ever.
Helen Gurley Brown Was the Practical Goddess of Love to Ordinary Women | Gail Sheehy | August 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the state Louis was in, between man's perfidy and woman's wiles, any refuge from the world, seemed a heaven to him.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterHe steeled himself, for he had had his experience of woman's wiles; and his faith in masculine supremacy as a habit did not waver.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonBonaparte told him he would represent the feeling of the Army of Italy, and help to bring to nothing the wiles of the royalists.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonHe laughed at her in keenest mockery, this Dorian Mountcastle, who was so tired of lovely woman and her deceitful wiles.
They Looked and Loved | Mrs. Alex McVeigh MillerYet with all his wiles he could not so completely cover his track as not to excite the suspicions of the English.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
British Dictionary definitions for wile
/ (waɪl) /
trickery, cunning, or craftiness
(usually plural) an artful or seductive trick or ploy
(tr) to lure, beguile, or entice
Origin of wile
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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