inveigle
verb (used with object)
to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed byinto ).
has inveigled
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present perfectof inveigle (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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My idea is that he has inveigled himself with some woman that he wishes to get rid of and finds it difficult.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
“Mrs Glaire,” said the vicar, sternly, “do you believe that your son has inveigled away that poor girl?”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
"Do what I told you, Jake," he said, with the smile of a man who has inveigled friends into accepting over-expensive Christmas presents.
From H. R. by Edwin Lefevre
How Old Gripper can swallow him is more than I can understand, and Gripper has inveigled Warren Hatch and Sudbury Bragg into it.
From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Burt L. Standish
He's a counselor-at-law, he is; and he has inveigled a boy into his keeping, who, he supposes, has a claim on me; and he proposes to make some money out of it.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
