Definition of Ploy

a gimmick or strategy

Examples of Ploy in a sentence

The store used a bait and switch ploy to get customers to buy a more expensive item.  🔊

If the prosecutor’s ploy does not work, a guilty man could go free.  🔊

The lender’s ploy is to offer you more money than requested while downplaying the increased rate of interest.  🔊

Although Janice may fall for your romantic ploy and forgive you this time, it does not mean she will allow you to cheat on her again.  🔊

My daughter attempts to use the divide and conquer ploy to get something from her father when she cannot get it from me.  🔊

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