Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk. See Synonyms at lure.
- v. To obtain by cajolery: inveigled a free pass to museum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To lead astray by making blind to the truth or to consequences; mislead by deception; entice into violation of duty, propriety, or self-interest: now usually with into.
- Synonyms To cajole, beguile, lure, insnare, decoy.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive to convert, convince or win over with flattery or wiles
- v. transitive to obtain through guile or cunning
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Etymologies
- Middle English envegle, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind, from aveugle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus : Latin ab-, away from; + Latin oculus, eye (probably loan-translation of Gaulish exsops : exs-, from + ops, eye). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering.”
“Several times Wolf Larsen tried to inveigle me into discussion, but”
“Though he's lucky if he pulls even on it, or if he can inveigle a publisher to risk bringing it out.”
“He had led his mother there, step by step, and now when she stopped, he tried to inveigle her farther.”
“By the way, let's check with Hillary whether there's still some way to inveigle Alawi into the top slot.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Brenner: Inside the Oval Office: The Middle East
“It falls to you, therefore, to inveigle a well-heeled person of your acquaintance into scooping you up and whisking you away.”
The Guardian: How do I get… someone to take me on holiday in January
“But it was rough even at the dawn of the new century when the Strokes emerged from the Lower East Side read: Dwight School with their post-punk guitars and biscuit-tin drums to capture a city's insouciant attitude and inveigle the rest of the country with it.”
“Meanwhile, the company dispatched their own PR professionals to the region to deceive and inveigle and obfuscate, all while treating concerned locals to a public face that was a "diversion" by design.”
The Huffington Post: Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf
“That Janacek's magnum opus has yet to inveigle itself into the popular imagination is a mystery bordering on injustice.”
The Wall Street Journal: Janacek's Sinfonietta Strikes Deep Chords
“One would think, in the case of Afghanistan, the U.S. would be well aware of its enemy's proficiency at guerrilla warfare, considering the CIA helped to inveigle the Soviets into invading Afghanistan, which President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski saw as an opportunity for "giving the USSR its Vietnam War.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inveigle’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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501
Classic
abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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501
Classic
bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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iamatology, iamb, ianthine, iatraliptic, iatramelia, iatrarchy, iatrochemistry, iatrogenic, iatrology, iatromathematics, iatrophobia, ibidem and 510 more...
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Come right this way!
Words that draw us toward an object or destination.
lure, tempt, suck in, summon, seduce, pull, persuade, inveigle, fascinate, entrap, enchant, draw and 12 more...
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Lolita
Marat, diaphanous, stolid, inveigle, moll, domicile, pugilist, indigent, corpulent, erudite, coruscate, ameliorate and 16 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 481 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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Your Grandfather's Bad Old World
chicanery, ballyhoo, thaumaturgy, inveigle, wheedle, buncombe, balderdash, twaddle, fustian, lexiphanic, obstreperous, autochthonous and 1 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
tatterdemalion, panopticon, idioglossia, hypnagogue, hypnopomp, defenestration, anacoluthon, scofflaw, affront, edifying, palimpsest, naufrage and 475 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
Tweets
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blafferty This word sounds like someone trying to wiggle their way into your pocket. Apr 23, 2011
victoriapl "Mulder, not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate."
X-files episode "Teliko" Dec 2, 2007