wiles
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++wiles /waɪlz/ noun [plural] INTELLIGENTclever talk or tricks used to persuade someone to do what you want 花言巧语；巧计 It was impossible to resist her feminine wiles. 她那些女人的小花招让人无法抗拒。
Examples from the Corpus
wiles• No, let such fellows as Williams be taken in by her artful wiles!• Make it very clear that when she's in your atmosphere, her wiles are completely inert.• Their wiles are starting to work.• Women with uncooperative husbands were forced to resort either to wiles such as these or to abortion.• They valued wiles, street smarts, never education.• Am I proud of resorting to stereotypical womanly wiles when I am supposed to be a postmodernist feminist egalitarian?feminine wiles• Surely he wasn't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam?• He somehow managed to resist all my feminine wiles.• I am, of course, no stranger to feminine wiles.Origin wiles (1100-1200) Perhaps from an unrecorded Old North French wile (singular), from Old French guile; → GUILEwiles nounChinese
Corpus to used tricks clever or persuade talk
wiles
wiles /waɪlz/
noun [plural]
It was impossible to resist her feminine wiles.
wiles /waɪlz/
noun [plural] Date: 1100-1200
Origin: Perhaps from an unrecorded Old North French wile (singular), from Old French guile; ⇨ guile
clever talk or tricks used to persuade someone to do what you want:Origin: Perhaps from an unrecorded Old North French wile (singular), from Old French guile; ⇨ guile