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:

Another ploy from an HMO to discourage clients from getting their kids expensive orthodontics.
DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
A frequent ploy in reviewing scholarly books is for the reviewer to chide the writer for not having written the book he would like to have read.
This is very economical of space and involves a clever computer ploy, but it does not provide a particularly useful synonym dictionary, for, as we all know, synonymy in language does not yield to the mathematical law that states, “Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.”
His denunciation of gimmicks notwithstanding, the spot offers one of its own--a distracting back-and-forth between color and black-and-white that's pure ploy.