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inveigle

[in-vay-guhl, -vee-] / ɪnˈveɪ gəl, -ˈvi- /


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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

And if the trailers are to be believed, this season sees her nemesis further inveigle his way into the US establishment by running for congress.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2012

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

Keep an eye on me, Dick, if beautiful woman inveigles, or a ragged messenger from a starving father tries to lure me into the slums.”

From Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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

Guilfoyle also allegedly inveigled her with a private-plane trip to Rome, a cut of future speaking fees and a chance to report for the network.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 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

However, that was a distraction; Lyra was still intent on playing Gobblers, and she inveigled Roger down into the wine cellars, which they entered by means of the Butler’s spare set of keys.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

They were accused of inveigling State funds into their banks far beyond the legal limit and then using these public deposits for large private borrowings for the use of Caldwell & Co. and its subsidiaries.

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

How evident it was that Annas was only intent on inveigling his prisoner to say something on which to base his after-accusation.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer




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