Words similar to ploy

Example sentences for: ploy

How can you use “ploy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Already, the idea of the black reference book with glamorous editors is something of a real problem and should make the public a bit suspicious because it seems so much like a marketing ploy.
The magazine calls Teletubbies a marketing ploy cloaked as education.
Walking away is a good ploy if you have the time.
(They had tried to implicate Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan as a coke user in the meantime, but the ploy didn't work.)
Another ploy has been to get major newspapers and other media to acknowledge their reliance on a particular dictionary to decide spelling (mainly) and, I suppose, other language matters.