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Definitions for Wiles

[1] a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
[2] wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
[3] deceitful cunning; trickery.
[4] to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.): The music wiled him from his study.
[5] wile away , to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
[6] trickery, cunning, or craftiness
[7] (usually plural) an artful or seductive trick or ploy
[8] (tr) to lure, beguile, or entice

Words related to Wiles

tratagem, guile, artfulness, scam, twist, device, artifice, racket, gimmick, fraud, plot, cheating, deception, trickery, dishonesty, ploy, dodge, maneuver, lure, slant

Words nearby Wiles

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Origin of Wiles

1125–75; (noun) Middle English; late Old English wil, perhaps < Old Norse vēl artifice, earlier *wihl-

Words that may be confused with Wiles

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, wilewhile, wile

Other words from Wiles

out·wile , verb (used with object), out·wiled, out·wil·ing.

Word origin for Wiles

C12: from Old Norse vel craft; probably related to Old French wīle, Old English wīgle magic. See guile

Synonyms for Wiles

guile, stratagem, angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, hoax, horseplay, imposition, lure, maneuver, plot, ploy, racket, ruse, scam, setup, shenanigans, skullduggery, slant, slyness, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist, little game, monkey business, monkeyshines, scheming