Sentence examples for outrageous ploy from inspiring English sources

In the movie, he stores the photographs of Margaret in a safe-deposit box and uses them to protect himself from prosecution — an outrageous ploy that causes Britain's internal Secret Service to spring into action.

Rather than fade away into dating obscurity or put my head in the oven, I designed an outrageous ploy that I hoped would reunite us.

In the suit, Pujols accuses Clark of disseminating "malicious, reckless and outrageous falsehoods" about him, and says Clark's accusations were "an outrageous ploy to generate attention and ratings" for Clark's new sports-radio talk show.

To undermine A.C.'s "image" in the public's mind, Edison (among other outrageous ploys) went so far as to suggest that alternating current was so hazardous, it was the perfect power system for the electric chair.

Is Trump's outrageous behavior a ploy to divert attention from alien infiltration?

It was an outrageous, unnecessary and ultimately stomach-churning ploy to pit the value of some children against others while completely ignoring the longstanding and very real threats that presidents and their families face.

IT'S tempting to see Mr. Goulian's outrageous persona as a pose, a marketing ploy: the Lady Gaga of literature.

Apparently one of the best ploys is a bit of outrageous humor.

It's a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country, and no one should fall for it".

"It is outrageous for him to use our protests as a ploy for the controversial West Side stadium," said Bill Dobbs, a spokesman for the organization.

Quoting opponents out of context is a familiar ploy in politics, but that doesn't make it any less outrageous.