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noun wʌɪlwaɪl wilesDevious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants. 诡计，奸计；巧计；花招 she didn't employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention the devious wiles of the politicians Example sentencesExamples - Women and their feminine wiles fascinated and frustrated him.
- Sometimes her attempt to handle tough situations on her own causes problems, as when she tries to imitate Julia's feminine wiles on a young male friend.
- I dance for lonely men, men who feel neglected, men who need the feigned affection and artful wiles of the dancer.
- Because, among other things, I'm a girl who believes that women needn't define themselves by what society dictates to be appropriate behaviour, and yet I'll never miss an opportunity to exercise my feminine wiles.
- It had taken all her feminine wiles to seduce Pemberton, the butler, and then spike his drink with a sleeping pill.
- But, come on, you must remember how fascinating it was to be in close contact with an attractive male around about the time you discovered your feminine wiles?
- ‘I literally have had men suggest to me that achieving my level of success was due to feminine wiles,’ she says.
- Marcus emboldens himself to ask, and Sarah turns her professional wiles on him, suggesting he heard what he wanted to hear.
- Better the paternalism of Ayub than the devious wiles of the politicians.
- But beneath the virtuous-widow facade she presented to the world was a cold, calculating, manipulative monster who used her feminine wiles to get what she wanted.
- I can't hang with the girls who run to the bathroom to apply lipstick every five minutes, but I can appreciate those who flaunt their feminine wiles in other ways.
- Despite the bitterly cold and windy night, the usual stalwarts came out to test their cognitive functions against the wiles of an entertaining master with extra musical memory questions thrown in for good measure.
- He used his wiles and his persuasion to the best of his ability… and the rest gave in.
- By current standards, Eve is old-fashioned, her wiles and stratagems strictly based on aligning herself with men for their power rather than tapping into her own.
- 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.
- She's an adventurous lass who uses her feminine wiles quite effectively on unsuspecting men.
- They should also, he counsels, allow men to be ‘the ostensible head of households’ as an incentive to marry, while wielding a subtler power through their feminine wiles.
- Cassandra uses all of her wiles to manipulate Duncan.
- Chicagoans are going to succumb to the feminine wiles of that palsied succubus, so you should make sure children could not possibly be the result.
- At the end of the night the beautiful maiden is trying to set up her handmaiden with a young burly blacksmith so she distracts the young guard with her feminine wiles and he is smitten.
Synonyms tricks, ruses, ploys, schemes, dodges, manoeuvres, gambits, subterfuges, cunning stratagems, artifices, devices, contrivances guile, artfulness, art, cunning, craftiness
verb wʌɪlwaɪl [with object]1archaic Lure; entice. 〈古〉引诱，诱惑，诱骗 she could be neither driven nor wiled into the parish kirk 威逼也罢利诱也罢均不能使她走进教区教堂。 Example sentencesExamples - Mike Upchat was not his real name, of course, and no one ever found out what this was; it was also not the only pseudonym he would employ in his schemes to wile his way into a woman's bed.
- If I were trapped in repressive, anti-literate society in which books were banned, I think my best bet for memorisation ought to be Machiavelli's The Prince, the better to wile my way to the top.
2wile something away the gang had played monopoly as they wiled away the hours another way of saying "while something away" (see while) Example sentencesExamples - Evelyn wiled away her days, performing odd tasks for Mrs. Watts, and practicing her needlepoint with her neighbor, Lindsey, as Lindsey's mother kept a close eye on her clumsy stitching.
- Parked in his car outside his estranged wife's home, Keith would wile away the hours hoping to catch a glimpse of his ‘two little smashers’.
- And although I wiled away many hours turning the opposition to toast and liberally covering them in butter, I still logged quite a few hours with the single-player game - playing through it a couple of times.
- Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
- He tempers this hobby by wiling away the days with his loser friends, and the nights catching lightning bugs.
- Ben had wiled away the time watching other people and wondering what their reactions would be when Nakem's true intentions were revealed.
- They are jailed mostly for non-violent crimes such as drug offenses or petty theft, and taxpayers are forced to spend extra millions to feed, house, and provide medical care for them while they wile away decades in prison.
- Everyone's going out and leaving me on my own tonight, and I have no idea whether I'll happily find something pleasant to wile away my time, or sink into complete and total depression.
- Paul, York Musical Theatre Company's artistic and musical director, will be joined by principal company members and friends from the theatre world to wile away a summer evening at this one-off event.
- We wouldn't want anything glamorous, just basics such as a hot drinks dispenser during winter, a small TV to wile away the hours, comfy sofas, a small toilet and maybe a crèche for the little ones.
OriginMiddle English: perhaps from an Old Norse word related to vél 'craft'. Rhymesaisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, mile, Nile, pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, worthwhile adjectivewʌɪlwaɪl Northern Irish informal 1Very bad; terrible. he was wile when he was young Example sentencesExamples - I left after the hunger strikes, it was a wile time.
- They were wile men in those days.
- She'd seem unaware that what he'd later describe as a “wile scene” was taking place.
- He was in a wile state when he got home.
- I was in a wile state when he was put on a ventilator.
- 1.1attributive Used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something negative.
losing the final was a wile blow Example sentencesExamples - There're a wile lot of people like that in Ballymoney.
- He had a wile drouth on him from when he came back.
- This guy ran down my drive at a wile speed towards the garden.
- It was wile tough handing half of them wee weans in.
- I had a wile sore head.
- "I've a wile sore stomach, mammy," I said.
- He killed a wile pile of people away out there.
- We seem to be spending a wile lot of money on these things.
- Those fellas are wile rip off merchants and we didn't trust them.
- There doesn't seem to be a wile lot on to be writing about this week.
adverbwʌɪlwaɪl Northern Irish informal Very; extremely. this old boy was wile pleased Example sentencesExamples - She was wile afraid of the dark.
- I wouldn't be getting wile excited about it.
- He was a complete gentleman and he was wile down to earth.
- I was just terrified all night; it left me in a wile worried state about my son.
- When he started checking his hair again in the window, I got wile angry.
- I told them that I was wile, wile glad to see the back of it.
- It was wile fun.
OriginLate 19th century: representing a pronunciation of wild, probably influenced by earlier Scots use of wile as an alteration of vile. nounwaɪlwīl wilesDevious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants. 诡计，奸计；巧计；花招 she didn't employ any feminine wiles to capture his attention the devious wiles of the politicians Example sentencesExamples - Better the paternalism of Ayub than the devious wiles of the politicians.
- But, come on, you must remember how fascinating it was to be in close contact with an attractive male around about the time you discovered your feminine wiles?
- By current standards, Eve is old-fashioned, her wiles and stratagems strictly based on aligning herself with men for their power rather than tapping into her own.
- She's an adventurous lass who uses her feminine wiles quite effectively on unsuspecting men.
- Chicagoans are going to succumb to the feminine wiles of that palsied succubus, so you should make sure children could not possibly be the result.
- Women and their feminine wiles fascinated and frustrated him.
- 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.
- He used his wiles and his persuasion to the best of his ability… and the rest gave in.
- At the end of the night the beautiful maiden is trying to set up her handmaiden with a young burly blacksmith so she distracts the young guard with her feminine wiles and he is smitten.
- I can't hang with the girls who run to the bathroom to apply lipstick every five minutes, but I can appreciate those who flaunt their feminine wiles in other ways.
- Despite the bitterly cold and windy night, the usual stalwarts came out to test their cognitive functions against the wiles of an entertaining master with extra musical memory questions thrown in for good measure.
- Sometimes her attempt to handle tough situations on her own causes problems, as when she tries to imitate Julia's feminine wiles on a young male friend.
- Because, among other things, I'm a girl who believes that women needn't define themselves by what society dictates to be appropriate behaviour, and yet I'll never miss an opportunity to exercise my feminine wiles.
- Cassandra uses all of her wiles to manipulate Duncan.
- They should also, he counsels, allow men to be ‘the ostensible head of households’ as an incentive to marry, while wielding a subtler power through their feminine wiles.
- It had taken all her feminine wiles to seduce Pemberton, the butler, and then spike his drink with a sleeping pill.
- But beneath the virtuous-widow facade she presented to the world was a cold, calculating, manipulative monster who used her feminine wiles to get what she wanted.
- ‘I literally have had men suggest to me that achieving my level of success was due to feminine wiles,’ she says.
- Marcus emboldens himself to ask, and Sarah turns her professional wiles on him, suggesting he heard what he wanted to hear.
- I dance for lonely men, men who feel neglected, men who need the feigned affection and artful wiles of the dancer.
Synonyms tricks, ruses, ploys, schemes, dodges, manoeuvres, gambits, subterfuges, cunning stratagems, artifices, devices, contrivances
verbwaɪlwīl [with object]1archaic Lure; entice. 〈古〉引诱，诱惑，诱骗 she could be neither driven nor wiled into the parish kirk 威逼也罢利诱也罢均不能使她走进教区教堂。 Example sentencesExamples - If I were trapped in repressive, anti-literate society in which books were banned, I think my best bet for memorisation ought to be Machiavelli's The Prince, the better to wile my way to the top.
- Mike Upchat was not his real name, of course, and no one ever found out what this was; it was also not the only pseudonym he would employ in his schemes to wile his way into a woman's bed.
2wile something away another way of saying "while something away" (see while) Example sentencesExamples - He tempers this hobby by wiling away the days with his loser friends, and the nights catching lightning bugs.
- Parked in his car outside his estranged wife's home, Keith would wile away the hours hoping to catch a glimpse of his ‘two little smashers’.
- We wouldn't want anything glamorous, just basics such as a hot drinks dispenser during winter, a small TV to wile away the hours, comfy sofas, a small toilet and maybe a crèche for the little ones.
- They are jailed mostly for non-violent crimes such as drug offenses or petty theft, and taxpayers are forced to spend extra millions to feed, house, and provide medical care for them while they wile away decades in prison.
- Ben had wiled away the time watching other people and wondering what their reactions would be when Nakem's true intentions were revealed.
- Known for disaffected characters who wile their lives away in seedy Bronx watering holes, Shanley's plays are populated with monologues and dialogues that have been mined for years by young acting students.
- Paul, York Musical Theatre Company's artistic and musical director, will be joined by principal company members and friends from the theatre world to wile away a summer evening at this one-off event.
- Everyone's going out and leaving me on my own tonight, and I have no idea whether I'll happily find something pleasant to wile away my time, or sink into complete and total depression.
- Evelyn wiled away her days, performing odd tasks for Mrs. Watts, and practicing her needlepoint with her neighbor, Lindsey, as Lindsey's mother kept a close eye on her clumsy stitching.
- And although I wiled away many hours turning the opposition to toast and liberally covering them in butter, I still logged quite a few hours with the single-player game - playing through it a couple of times.
OriginMiddle English: perhaps from an Old Norse word related to vél ‘craft’. adjectivewaɪlwīl Northern Irish informal 1Very bad; terrible. he was wile when he was young Example sentencesExamples - I was in a wile state when he was put on a ventilator.
- I left after the hunger strikes, it was a wile time.
- They were wile men in those days.
- She'd seem unaware that what he'd later describe as a “wile scene” was taking place.
- He was in a wile state when he got home.
- 1.1attributive Used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something negative.
losing the final was a wile blow Example sentencesExamples - I had a wile sore head.
- This guy ran down my drive at a wile speed towards the garden.
- Those fellas are wile rip off merchants and we didn't trust them.
- He had a wile drouth on him from when he came back.
- We seem to be spending a wile lot of money on these things.
- There're a wile lot of people like that in Ballymoney.
- It was wile tough handing half of them wee weans in.
- There doesn't seem to be a wile lot on to be writing about this week.
- "I've a wile sore stomach, mammy," I said.
- He killed a wile pile of people away out there.
adverbwaɪlwīl Northern Irish informal Very; extremely. this old boy was wile pleased Example sentencesExamples - She was wile afraid of the dark.
- I was just terrified all night; it left me in a wile worried state about my son.
- It was wile fun.
- I told them that I was wile, wile glad to see the back of it.
- When he started checking his hair again in the window, I got wile angry.
- He was a complete gentleman and he was wile down to earth.
- I wouldn't be getting wile excited about it.
OriginLate 19th century: representing a pronunciation of wild, probably influenced by earlier Scots use of wile as an alteration of vile. |