inveigling

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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

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

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

He would gain several hours of valuable time by inveigling the doctor into a search for a place that had existence only in the Phantom’s imagination.

From The Gray Phantom's Return by Landon, Herman