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King Takes Advantage Of Cunning Stratagems

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noun

• a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

44%5Cunning stratagems
noun

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

36%11Cunning stratagems
noun

• the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

• the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

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