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Another word for entice

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Verb

  1. To direct or impel to oneself by some quality or action

    See also:

    like

  2. To beguile or draw into a wrong or foolish course of action

    Idioms:
    See also:

    persuasion

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Another word for entice

Verb
  1. See also:

    tempt

    tempt

    seduce

    fascinate

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Sentence Examples

  • "I keep trying to entice you, but you seem immune to me," he teased.

  • So he had come up to entice Katie back.

  • The Ikshid, sovereign of Egypt and Syria, offered him a refuge, but Tuzun, fearing to see the caliph obtain such powerful support, found means to entice him to his tent, and had his eyes put out, Saphar 333 (October 944).

  • Nor did he say to himself: "Pierre is a rich man, I must entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles I need."

  • No agitation for the development of national defences, no beating of drums to awaken the military spirit, no anti-foreign clamour or invasion panic, no parading of uniforms and futile clash of arms, are necessary to entice the groundling and the bumpkin into the service.

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