decoy
noun
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
has decoyed
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present perfectof decoy (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If the bee does not love to gather honey from the flower: if the Manitou does not love his white and red children, then Areotha has decoyed the boats ashore!
From Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh
He has decoyed me into this boat, and he means to get rid of you.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic
But the bait of local interests, artfully prepared for their palate, has decoyed them from their kindred attachments, to alliances alien to them.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
So writes my good brother Arimbaldo, a man of letters, whom the Tribune thinks rightly he has decoyed with old tales of Roman greatness, and mighty promises of grateful advancement.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
