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Meaning ploy meaning

What does ploy mean?

ploy

a maneuver in a game or conversation (= gambit) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

Synonyms ploy synonyms

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How do I use ploy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

His ploy almost succeeded.
Tom's ploy almost suceeded.
Her ploy almost succeeded.
The opposition party claimed that approving the bill by a vote late at night was a political ploy.

Movie subtitles

I knew we'd get to the check ploy.
Ploy number one.
The all thing is just a ploy to keep you all distracted. To not realize what's going on.
I think it's a ploy to make me stay home.
What a ploy.
Fool's ploy, my man. Fool's ploy.
You know, Cato, your freezer ambush ploy. I really congratulate you.
Ah, I see you are familiar with the open fly ploy.
You also know the falling on the bed with the arm on the floor ploy.
Sitting Bull uses an old Injun ploy.
It is a ploy.
The old closet ploy.
If there's one thing I do enjoy. it's a good closet ploy.
A ploy by the Fuhrer.
No. A terrific ploy that just flunked.
You know, this blind-man ploy is really great.
Outbidding the prosecutor. Same ploy, new angle.
Maybe it's just a ploy to please me.
I'm not falling for your ploy.
Now, here's the ploy.
Fool's ploy, my man.
Fool's ploy.
You'll find this ploy somewhere in your manual, I'm sure.
You know, Cato, your freezer ambush ploy.
Here's a smart little ploy. to be used at a distance.
According to Le Parisien, your suspect is a ploy.
Ruslan won't hear your imploring! His sword is pulled, your ploy ignoring.
How can saluting his greatest rival's son be a ploy?
Please do not be fooled by this ploy.
It's a ploy used by many.
Filing through the bars is obsolete ploy.
Perfectly orthodox ploy.
That's when I realized it was a ploy. He didn't love me. He used me.
Mrs Beakley, is this a ploy to get some vacation time?
The bed was just a ploy.
Do you think the civil suit is a ploy?
You can't argue with me or negotiate or attempt a ploy.

News and current affairs

Nor are the talks a Syrian ploy to avoid facing an international tribunal on the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the sources of bilateral discord unattended.
Nor was this a propaganda ploy, as some suggested.
He will need to demonstrate that France no longer treats Europe as a scapegoat for its own economic troubles - a ploy that merely marginalizes France in economic debates.
In the face of these undeniable facts, the path chosen by the IMF and the World Bank was, at best, a mark of their incompetence and, at worst, a deliberate ploy to keep the sub-Saharan countries and their populations in bondage.
But the US and its allies quickly rejected the agreement as an Iranian ploy designed to halt the growing momentum for additional sanctions.
The leaders of Belarus or Kazakhstan seemed equally surprised by Putin's statement, especially as Russia had just prohibited almost all imports of dairy products from Belarus in a protectionist ploy.
Indeed, many regard Netanyahu's Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.
The French government, on the other hand, fears that the Germans' commitment to eurozone stability is a ploy aimed at pushing France into a corner and leaving it behind economically.

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