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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wile \wile\, n. oe. wile, as. wimacl; cf. icel. v?l, vael.
   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
see also:
guile 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wile
     n : the use of tricks to deceive someone usually to extract
         money from them syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane,
          guile, shenanigan
see also:
trickery chicanery chicane guile shenanigan 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
146 moby thesaurus words for "wile":
   italian hand, machiavellianism, 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, joker, juggle, jugglery, knavery,
   little game, low cunning, 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





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