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/waɪl/ · noun
(usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
He was seduced by her wiles.
"Anything interesting among your letters, Geoffrey?" asked Miss Tilehurst, concealing a protective curiosity under this sociable wile, since she had already inspected the covers.
to frustrate all our plots and wiles
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree.
Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.
“A fear of what?” asked the gentleman, who seemed to pity her. “I scarcely know of what,” replied the girl. “I wish I did. Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. I was reading a book to-night, to wile the time away, and the same things came into the print.”
Use wile when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wile means (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice.
Common synonyms include beguilement, allurement, chicanery, trickery.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was seduced by her wiles.
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