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wiles

UK/waɪlz/US/waɪlz/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,286 of 15,258neutral

Wiles are cunning tricks used to get your way. Feminine wiles, use your wiles, all his wiles.

The word is nearly always plural and nearly always attached to persuasion rather than force. Feminine wiles is the fixed phrase and a dated one, carrying an assumption that women get their way by trickery. Note wily, the adjective; and that the singular wile is rare outside the verb beguile.

Definitions of wiles

  1. 1nounwilesCunning tricks used to get your way.C1

    “The salesman used all his wiles to persuade the old couple to buy a new car.”

wiles is cunning tricks.

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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