inveigling

present participle of inveigle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inveigling
Verb
  • For a service built on impulse viewing, telco deals buy instant reach and built-in billing in price-sensitive markets where persuading users to sign up directly can be hard.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026
  • Candidates must position themselves as entertainers, performing for voters rather than persuading them.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • Beyond the funds committed to the program, the ways in which new incentives allocate those dollars are applauded for luring productions to return.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 18 June 2026
  • This has included perpetrators pretending to administer a survey in their car, posing as a social worker giving away free baby items at their home, accompanying victims to a doctor’s appointment at a nonexistent clinic, and luring them to fake baby showers.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • That means seducing Paris Carver, Elliot's wife and Bond's ex, portrayed by Teri Hatcher.
    John Russell, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
  • Nate plays his older neighbors like a fiddle, seducing them with his beauty, money, and youth.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Obviously, Donnie being over there was enticing to me.
    Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • For American diners of diverse backgrounds, chop suey struck an enticing balance between novelty and decipherability, which propelled it to national popularity even as the US government moved to exclude Chinese laborers from entering the country in 1882.
    Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Nonetheless, top venture capitalists feel then need to assure that there won’t be a mass selloff when selling opens, betraying a persistent anxiety beneath the bonanza.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 17 June 2026
  • At the end of the second season, multiple armies were mustering for war over King's Landing as the Targaryen clan just couldn't stop betraying each other long enough to govern.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 12 June 2026
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“Inveigling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inveigling. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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