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noun
1.
a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
2.
wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
3.
deceitful cunning; trickery.
verb (used with object)
4.
to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.): The music wiled him from his study.
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Wiles
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
5.
wile away, to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
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Example Sentences
- But it also owes something to the sector's entrepreneurial wiles.
- Securing the portraits required tenacity, quick reflexes and the wiles of a fixer.
- Perhaps you have experience with percentages and fractions which work their wiles on many a arithmetician.
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Word Origin & History
wile
1154, wil "wile, trick," perhaps from O.N.Fr. *wile (O.Fr. guile), or directly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. vel "trick, craft, fraud," vela "defraud"). Perhaps ultimately related to O.E. wicca "wizard" (see Wicca). Lighter sense of "amorous or playful trick" is from 1600.
EXPANDWily is attested from c.1300.
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