Ploy vs Deceit - What's the difference?
ploy | deceit |
A tactic, strategy, or gimmick.
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, title= (UK, Scotland, dialect) Sport; frolic.
(military) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
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(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
As nouns the difference between ploy and deceit
is that ploy is a tactic, strategy, or gimmick while deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.As a verb ploy
is (military) to form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.ploy
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Etymology 2
Probably abbreviated from deploy.Verb
(en verb)- (Wilhelm)
Antonyms
* deploy (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----deceit
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .