(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
(3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
(4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
(6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
(7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
(9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
(10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
(11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
(13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
(14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
(15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
(17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
(18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
(19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
(20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.
Ruse
Definition:
(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
(4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
(5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
(6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
(7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
(9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
(10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
(11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
(12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
(13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
(14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
(15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
(16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
(17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
(18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
(19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
(20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.