inveigle
verb (used with object)
to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed byinto ).
inveigling
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present participleof inveigle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The tests were designed to find out which visual and verbal elements on the site were most conducive to inveigling users into making donations.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2017
The shallow write-ups and inveigling headlines are insulting, and possibly injurious.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2014
Once, when a lonely, 51-year-old bachelor crippled with arthritis sued a dance studio for inveigling him into paying for 1,000 hours of lessons, Karafin wrote an incisive story about the case.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year-old."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, might not some of this 'sutor ultra crepidam's' friends and seducers have done a decent action without inveigling Pratt into biography?
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
