wiles
怀尔斯,踌躇满志,怀斯,智慧
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Definitions
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- : a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
- : wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
- : deceitful cunning; trickery.
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wiled, wil·ing.
- : to beguile, entice, or lure: The music wiled him from his study.
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- : wile away, to spend or pass, especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
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Examples
Wiles initially denied that he had performed as Mona Sinclair to the Winston-Salem Journal before eventually coming clean.
Eventually though, Wiles was suspended for "conduct unbecoming to a Promoter of the Miss Gay America pageant system."
Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony.
For Wiles, appearing in Web series has been an enriching experience.
She loved men and sex, and enjoyed using feminine wiles, and she encouraged women not to give up on any of that, ever.
In the state Louis was in, between man's perfidy and woman's wiles, any refuge from the world, seemed a heaven to him.
He steeled himself, for he had had his experience of woman's wiles; and his faith in masculine supremacy as a habit did not waver.
Bonaparte told him he would represent the feeling of the Army of Italy, and help to bring to nothing the wiles of the royalists.
He laughed at her in keenest mockery, this Dorian Mountcastle, who was so tired of lovely woman and her deceitful wiles.
Yet with all his wiles he could not so completely cover his track as not to excite the suspicions of the English.