Another word for inveigle
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Verb
To beguile or draw into a wrong or foolish course of action
- To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
- To be inviting or attractive to:
- To provoke or to risk provoking:
- To attract or lead (someone) away from proper behavior or thinking:
- To induce (someone) to engage in sexual activity, as by flirting or persuasion.
- To entice into a different state or position:
- Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
- An attraction or appeal:
- A decoy used in catching animals, especially an artificial bait used in catching fish.
- To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire:
- To attract with something desirable; entice:
- To be highly, often subtly attractive:
- The power to attract; enticement.
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Another word for inveigle
Verb
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- An act or procedure intended to achieve an end by deceptive or fraudulent means.
- A mischievous action; a prank:
- A stupid, disgraceful, or childish act:
- To take or catch in or as if in a snare; trap.
- To persuade by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language:
- To elicit or obtain by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language:
- To use flattery, pleading, or insincere language in an attempt to persuade someone to do something:
- To attract (someone), usually to do something, by arousing hope, interest, or desire:
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