"clever ploy" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a plot or plan that is thought out carefully and cleverly. Example: His clever ploy to steal the election worked, and he won by a landslide.
It's a clever ploy; I entered one of my own.
Clever ploy that, evoking past failures to dilute ridicule over the current one.
In the end, of course, the heroine saves the day through bravery, pluck and a clever ploy.
It's a clever ploy and if the stresses aren't too great - if politics is linear - it can even work.
"Surely the 'Prior man-flu-gate' is just a clever ploy to bolster the middle order batting with Bopara," says Mr Pink.
All right, try this one on: Might not his attacks on Mr. Lieberman actually be a clever ploy to get a fellow Jew elected?
The fox is a cunning creature – it's got all sorts of clever ploys, while the hedgehog is fairly simple and can only defend itself against the fox by curling up.
One of Goldman's clever ploys to protect its wealth was to take out billions of dollars of swap positions with insurer AIG, guarding itself against default on complex derivatives.
Despite a huge hit in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," much profit, company executives said, came from the mining of its library with clever ploys like the "Little Mermaid" Platinum Release DVD, which sold nine million units without the burden of star participations.
In a 1998 Newsweek article about the Farrelly brothers, the interviewer recounts how the brothers "concocted a variety of clever ploys designed to get you to look" at Farrelly's penis, characterizing the sexual harassment as outrageous, but largely accepted, boyish pranks.
One of the cleverest ploys of the imitation manufacturers was to foster the merging of the genuine and the imitation in the same instrument, suggesting to the world at large that both are artistic equals.
