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inveigle
verb as in entice, manipulate
Example Sentences
Prosecutors accuse Bateman of working with three of the women he says are his wives to “unlawfully seize, confine, inveigle, decoy, kidnap, abduct and carry away” three children and transport them to Washington state.
Prosecutors accuse Bateman of working with three of the women he says are his wives to “unlawfully seize, confine, inveigle, decoy, kidnap, abduct and carry away” three children and transport them to Washington state.
All of those thinly veiled efforts to inveigle an answer are met with a stock response.
The show’s reductive but amusing premise is that there are two types of single men: “nice guys,” who legitimately want love, or if not, then at least a respectful hookup, and “FBoys,” narcissistic players who will do whatever it takes to inveigle women into bed.
To reach Peru, Dr. Koepcke had to first get to a port and inveigle his way onto a trans-Atlantic freighter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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