wile in English

noun
1
devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants.
It is the Africans who are moving, shifting, thinking, plotting, and therefore digging their own entrenchment in this land upon which so many others have, through wiles and stratagems of their own, entrenched themselves here.
verb
1
lure; entice.
she could be neither driven nor wiled into the parish kirk

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "wile" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "wile", or refer to the context using the word "wile" in the English Dictionary.

1. wile sb. into doing sth.

2. What does Wile E Coyote want?

3. Chicane; Chicanery; guile; shenanigan; trickery; wile

4. Crafty is a coyote parody of Wile E

5. Wile Charles was in prison; Sydney Carton had also arrived in Paris.

6. My wile and I consider this to be a most fortunate match.

7. Artifice definition, a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile

8. Or, in keeping with theme week, the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

9. 10 Or, in keeping with theme week, the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

10. Or, in keeping with theme week[sentence dictionary], the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

11. “The devil’s deepest wile,” wrote 19th-century poet Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, “is to persuade us that he does not exist.”

12. It's been a wile since you heard anything from us at Clutching At Straws but here's a little new year treat for 2021

13. The theme of the book is Brahminist wile behind bomb blasts across the country and the deft shifting of the blame on unwitting Muslims

14. The theme of the book is Brahminist wile behind bomb blasts across the country and the deft shifting of the blame on unwitting Muslims.

15. Or are we heading for a cliff, or already over the edge and simply unaware, like Wile E. Coyote in those old Road Runner cartoons?

16. We're kind of like Wile E. Coyote plotting a batch of schemes to capture the road runner, only we're trying to catch an entire flock.

17. Has the comical and enviable habit of making most defenders look not unlike Wile E Coyote in pursuit of the roadrunner when he puts his foot down.

18. The Julius Wile Commanderie de Bordeaux aux Etats Unis d’Amerique Bordeaux Education Prize includes a two-week, arranged trip of the Bordeaux wine areas and some travel expense money

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20. I compared those who hadn't noticed this peak to Wile E. Coyote of the "Road Runner" cartoons, who runs off the cliff and finds himself suspended in air before dropping to the valley floor.

21. Chicanery - the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicane, guile dissimulation, deception, dissembling, deceit - the act of deceiving dupery, hoax, put-on, humbug, fraud, fraudulence - something intended to …

22. ‘Doubtless, the special effects of this movie will Bedazzle you.’ ‘She Bedazzled him with her feminine wile and captured his heart with tales of personal woe concerning the mysterious death of her mother, the cruel indifference of her father and her humiliation caused by King Magnus' public rejection.’

23. ‘Doubtless, the special effects of this movie will Bedazzle you.’ ‘She Bedazzled him with her feminine wile and captured his heart with tales of personal woe concerning the mysterious death of her mother, the cruel indifference of her father and her humiliation caused by King Magnus' public rejection.’

24. The aire of the place so Attempre was, That ner was there grevaunce of hot ne cold-- * * * * * * Under a tre beside a well I seye Cupid our lorde his arrowes forge and file, And at his fete his Bowe all redie laye, And well his doughtir temprid all the while The heddis in the well, and with her wile