Wile

Noun

 * 1) in plural A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
 * He was seduced by her wiles.

Synonyms

 * beguilement
 * allurement

Related terms

 * guile
 * wily

Verb

 * 1) To entice or lure
 * , "to pass the time".
 * Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From a Scandinavian source, vél: ; akin to Old English wil:, wigle:

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek: πονηριά, τέχνασμα ,


 * Japanese: 策略
 * Latin:

Noun

 * 1) tomorrow

Synonyms

 * ule
 * wvle

Noun

 * 1) wile:, trick, artifice
 * 2) a sorcerer

Etymology
From wil:, wigle:,  vél:.

Descendants

 * English: wiley