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wile

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1. wile - Noun

2. wile - Verb

3. Wile - Proper noun

Meaning

A trick or stratagem practiced for insnaring or deception; a sly, insidious; artifice; a beguilement; an allurement.

To practice artifice upon; to deceive; to beguile; to allure.

To draw or turn away, as by diversion; to while or while away; to cause to pass pleasantly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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“A little discomfort is expected,” as when you exert yourself lifting weights, said Al Wile, the director of sports vision at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and a longtime proponent of vision training. Source: Internet

City College has always had that Wile E. Coyote feel. Source: Internet

That the other shoe is about to drop, and that it weighs more than one of those cartoon bank vaults suspended above the head of Wile E. Coyote as he trots, blithely oblivious to peril, down a cartoon desert highway. Source: Internet

I'm like Wile E. Coyote, run off a cliff, some distance from safety before I realise the peril. Source: Internet

In the third, he threw a boomerang, but didn’t really accomplish anything; what stopped Wile E., and what humiliated him, was his own boomerang coming back. Source: Internet

I half expected his avatar to hang in mid-air for a moment and wave goodbye, Wile E. Coyote-style, before haplessly plummeting to the ground. Source: Internet

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