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The sleazy, scheming De Guiche has been using his power and manipulative wiles to trap Roxanne in a situation where she’ll have no choice but to receive him as her lover.

He also intimated that Ruth Belville used her feminine wiles to get custom.

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England's scrum creaked, perhaps decisively, when the wisdom and wiles of Cole and Marler departed.

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My concern is that it’s all too tempting to yield to such wiles in the name of saving time and minimizing effort.

That it’s probably illegal to own ramekins before age 25, and even when you do have them, you might lose them to divorce or to the uncareful wiles of teenage children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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