inveigling

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Once, when a lonely, 51-year-old bachelor crippled with arthritis sued a dance studio for inveigling him into paying for 1,000 hours of lessons, Karafin wrote an incisive story about the case.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certainly there was no more innocent party to the inveigling of Gloomy Gus than Bowles, and yet for some reason Hardy Atkins and his comrades in crime chose to gaze upon him with a frown.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane