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The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

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        Uso de wile em inglês
        1
        Every wile known to beauty had been employed in a hundred sieges.
        The Rose in the Ring
        2
        He possessed a voice that could wile a bird off a bought.
        The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
        3
        You looked for wile, for cunning, for self-seeking,-andthey were not there.
        The Inside of the Cup — Volume 06
        4
        Beware Edward's false smile, beware Clarence's fickle faith, beware Gloucester's inscrutable wile!
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 07
        5
        I suppose that he indulged in a flirtation to wile away the time.
        Dawn
        6
        For three rounds he exhausted every wile in trying to get at him.
        The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport
        7
        To tell the truth I am well informed yonder match is a wile.
        The Junior Classics, Volume 4: Heroes and heroines of chivalry
        8
        He has that queer quality which can wile a bird off a tree.
        The Price of Things
        9
        Think you that Vivian Grey would fall by a woman's wile?
        Vivian Grey
        10
        Socifyin' wid dem wile furren nations ain' hu't you a bit-'deedit ain't!
        The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar All...
        11
        It is, in other words, a surprisingly soothing way to wile away an afternoon.
        The Guardian
        12
        And it doth it the more easily, because it doth it with a wile.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
        13
        In his presence Christina had no longer self-assertion or wile.
        What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2
        14
        In cases like these, it was only wile which conquered.
        A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
        15
        Well old pal they thought for a wile that it was Feeney for yrs.
        The Real Dope
        16
        We might wile away an hour there very pleasantly if you feel so disposed.
        My Strangest Case
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