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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inveigle.
Examples
“Her interaction with Wiggins, her boss, is truly genius as she inveigles to remain on earth, even though violating rule after rule, all in a good cause, of course!”
“He orders her about, tells bad jokes, eats her paperback novels, and slowly but inexorably inveigles his way into her lonely life.”
“While a director tries to get his doomed production of Twelfth Night in shape, a former patron of the failing theater inveigles his dead wife into the lead role.”
“Naturally you ask him no difficult questions, you simply treat him—his very tininess inveigles you into doing so—like a child.”
Simon & Schuster: The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
“With the help of exec producer Judd Apatow, Ramis made a semi-gross out comedy that inveigles to explore a few serious ideas as well.”
Brad Balfour: Q&A: Harold Ramis Goes from Ghostbusting To Getting Primitive Directing Year One
“And I think the term also holds the same kind of implied threat as those "Mommy loves you best books," that the book or character is somehow acting in a way that inveigles approval -- rather than alliance -- from the reader.”
“Here, Gilmour coaches, inveigles and scolds Jesse into finish some homework.”
“I refer to the one who inveigles against vice when not at the betting tables.”
"For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton."
“THE BANK JOB stars Jason Statham (WAR, CRANK, THE ITALIAN JOB) as Terry, the car dealer with a dodgy past and Saffron Burrows (KLIMT, ENIGMA) as Martine, the successful model from his old neighborhood who inveigles her old flame and his friends into undertaking the bank robbery.”
“It may be that "false gods" are thought to be lumps of stone* or meaningless ideas, and the Devil only inveigles us into worshipping them, like chasing bubbles.”
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bilby GHibbs, lookee here! Sep 26, 2011
hernesheir One wonders whether "Fohm" in Casey's comment citation below is a typo that should have been rendered föhn or foehn? Sep 26, 2011
Casey "I remember the desert winds: the Kamsin that scourges the land like smokeless fire; the Fohm that bursts from hot mountainsides as if in ambush; the sly Simoom that inveigles its way through leather sandscreens and library doors." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Sep 26, 2011