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decoy
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something used to attract animals to a hook or into a trap
- We set the decoy afloat in the marsh and from the blind waited for the ducks to arrive.
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decoy
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to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage
- tacky souvenir shops to which first-time tourists had been decoyed into spending their hard-earned money
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Synonym Discussion of decoy
lure, entice, inveigle, decoy, tempt, seduce mean to lead astray from one's true course. lure implies a drawing into danger, evil, or difficulty through attracting and deceiving.
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- lured naive investors with get-rich-quick schemes
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- advertising designed to entice new customers
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- fund-raisers inveigling wealthy alumni
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- attempting to decoy the enemy into an ambush
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- tempted by the offer of money
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- seduced by assurances of assistance
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