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Noun: wile  wI(-u)l
  1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
    - trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, shenanigan

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Derived forms: wiles

Type of: deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation

Encyclopedia: Wile, John

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Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm II
Wilhelm Karl Grimm