noun. A stratagem or trick intended to deceive or ensnare.

noun. A disarming or seductive manner, device, or procedure.

transitive verb. To influence or lead by means of wiles; entice.

transitive verb. To pass (time) agreeably.

To deceive; beguile; impose on.

To lure; entice; inveigle; coax; cajole.

To shorten or cause to pass easily or pleasantly, as by some diverting wile: in this sense probably confused with while.

noun. Same as wild, Weald (?).

noun. A trick or stratagem; anything practised for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.

noun. Synonyms Manœuver, Stratagem, etc. See artifice.

noun. A Middle English form of while.

transitive verb. To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

transitive verb. To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.

noun. A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

noun. A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

verb. To entice or lure

verb. Alternative spelling of while, "to pass the time".

noun. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

"  I see the only way I'm going to get through this is to do what I used to call the wile-aways."

guile  wily  

deceit  deception  dissembling  dissimulation  

dupery  fraud  fraudulence  hoax  humbug  

Argyll  Kyle  Marseille  Mikhail  Niall  

adroitness  artfulness  artifice  blandishment  bribery  

Italian hand  Machiavellianism  acuteness  allure  allure  

wiled  wiles  wiling