inveigling

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The tests were designed to find out which visual and verbal elements on the site were most conducive to inveigling users into making donations.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2017

The shallow write-ups and inveigling headlines are insulting, and possibly injurious.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2014

They were accused of inveigling State funds into their banks far beyond the legal limit and then using these public deposits for large private borrowings for the use of Caldwell & Co. and its subsidiaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year-old."

From Time Magazine Archive

Aunt M'riar cultivated this good woman with an eye to information, holding her up—as the phrase is now—at the stairfoot and inveigling her to tea and gossip.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend