decoy
noun
a person who entices or lures another person or thing, as into danger, a trap, or the like.
have decoyed
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present perfectof decoy.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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Cost of equipment and wages has gone up; motor cars have decoyed passengers and, by crowding thoroughfares, have increased cost of running cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Signor Cavalier," said she, "you now see to what I have decoyed you.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
How could they have decoyed him down there?
From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The British, however, led by the Nantuckois, whom they have decoyed into their service, have begun this fishery.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
If even Ralph had appeared, she would have decoyed him into her own room, and locked him up there, if necessary.
From The Adventures of Captain Horn by Frank Richard Stockton
