noun
definition
(usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
example
He was seduced by her wiles.
Examples of wiles in a Sentence
The march upon Naples became a triumphal progress, which the wiles of Francesco II.
So so sorry 11th Jul 2005 Claire Wiles I was totally shocked and sickened to hear about this.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Smugglers flit across the long, leaky desert border using ancient wiles and modern technology.
Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker 's prey.
I see Satan 's wiles, I see what the world wants, and I sense the frailty and corruption of my flesh.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Do not allow your own good judgment to be overcome by the wiles of an unprincipled woman !
He learned so much about the wiles of Satan.
That is one possibility for trying to find a middle way between Wiles modern deism and White's theological determinism.
Carly uses her feminine wiles on Christopher to good effect.
Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey.
I see Satan's wiles, I see what the world wants, and I sense the frailty and corruption of my flesh.
In later days he used to refer with pride to his services on this occasion, when he was first initiated into the wiles of Oriental diplomacy.
They were enticed into disobedience to God by the wiles of the serpent, the prehistoric ancestor of the Christian Satan.
Your wife will love to be reminded that you still desire and recognize her feminine wiles.
In fact the pasha was an illiterate barbarian, of the same type as his countryman Ali of Iannina, courageous, cruel, astute, full of wiles, avaricious and boundlessly ambitious.
Hugh was worsted during the earlier part of this struggle, and was in serious straits, until he was saved by the wiles of his partisan Adalberon, bishop of Laon, who in 991 treacherously seized Charles and handed him over to the king.
His portrait, by Lowes Dickinson, was placed in the hall of Trinity College in 1874, and his bust, by Henry Wiles, in the library of the same college in 1888.