WILE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

Synonyms:

chicane; chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("wile" is a kind of...):

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wile"):

dupery; fraud; fraudulence; hoax; humbug; put-on (something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage)

jugglery (artful trickery designed to achieve an end)

Derivation:

wily (marked by skill in deception)

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wile