inveigle

All of those thinly veiled efforts to inveigle an answer are met with a stock response.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

There really was an Abigail; she really did inveigle herself into the Queen’s esteem; and the Duchess of Marlborough really was incensed.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2018

Elsewhere, Shelley's got a bee in her bonnet, and Janine attempts to inveigle herself among the la-di-da of Croydon.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013

A report this week by McAfee, a computer-security company, reveals the results of a five-year probe called Operation Shady RAT, examining attacks that use “Remote Access Tools” to inveigle access to computer networks.

From Economist ● Aug. 3, 2011

Naturally Finny was going to be the first to try, and just as naturally he was going to inveigle others, us, into trying it with him.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

How, for instance, he inveigles a red-headed young woman – “as exotic as a tropical fish” – to pose for his camera, exposing her freckled arms.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2018

Too broke to afford a hotel, Ricki inveigles her way into a guest room at the swanky McMansion Pete shares with his second wife, who’s away at the moment caring for her own ailing father.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2015

Once inside the body, it interferes with the propagation of signals through the central nervous system, and it inveigles its way into enzymes, disrupting their role in processing the nutritious elements zinc, iron and calcium.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2014

As he slowly inveigles himself into their lives, a sinister tone is set as he manipulates husband against wife, wife against nanny, and nanny against boyfriend.

From BBC ● May 19, 2013

And who not only does those dreadful things himself," went on Nora, "but inveigles others into doing them, too.

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

What happened over the next four decades is a chilling tale of deception in which a man pretended to be the missing son of the landlord and inveigled himself into his house.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2022

Just as you've bribed, bought, and inveigled your way out of scandals and bankruptcies, so you'll believe you can bluster and wriggle your way out of this moment, too.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2020

A Miss Hungary finalist at 15, she was still a teenager when she inveigled a Turkish diplomat to the altar.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2019

More common was the enraged accusation that deceitful Northerners colluded with “slave stealers” and inveigled slaves to flee.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2018

Some god inveigled me to come without a cloak.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

And old Batchgrew went on talking and inveigling until Rachel was ready to believe that the device of debentures had been originally invented by Thomas Batchgrew himself with felonious intent.

From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett