Sentence examples similar to sly ploy from inspiring English sources

Their ploy was to make you work for the sex by teasing you with shower scenes and sly looks, with the good stuff not coming until later.

I agree that their scenaristic smoothing of the way is a sly sentimental cheat; but I think that they're also the purveyors of an even more audacious, and even somewhat admirable, ploy: they've put their characters into archetypal, emotionally live-wire, morally ambiguous dramas which, unfortunately, they short-circuit with quick and easy resolutions.

^ Sly, Liz.

Sly grin.

(He was sly).

The book is sly.

It was a ploy".

Another negotiating ploy?

That sly little pup".

Sly Stallone?

The ploy worked.