Thesaurus / seduce
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The jury may have been swayed by the argument that Ballard had seduced Norman in a story familiar in every seduction novel.
A SHOCKING 19TH-CENTURY CRIME REVEALS THE CONTINUED NEED FOR GENDER EQUALITYJULIE MILLERDECEMBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON POSTOver time, Gore was seduced by what he calls ecology’s “big, beautiful theories” for how living beings can exist in complex communities.
A PHYSICIST’S APPROACH TO BIOLOGY BRINGS ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTSGABRIEL POPKINOCTOBER 13, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINESilicon Valley has long been seduced by the idea of augmented reality and has struggled nearly as long to make the technology useful.
MAGIC LEAP TRIED TO CREATE AN ALTERNATE REALITY. ITS FOUNDER WAS ALREADY IN ONEVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNEIn coming decades, technology will more compellingly seduce our attention, will escape its silicon-and-glass cage, will animate the inanimate, and even shape our biology.
WHAT TWO BILLION PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO IS STILL IN THE HANDS OF A FEW COMPANIESJASON DORRIERSEPTEMBER 20, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Then the Pool Boy Chronicles, in which Falwell’s wife allegedly seduced a 20-year-old pool boy into a relationship that involved Falwell attending for the purposes of video documentation.
WHO AMONG US HAS NOT SEDUCED THE POOL BOY?EUGENE ROBINSONAUGUST 30, 2020OZYAt Stettin, during the armistice, he entered the fortress and tried to seduce the governor, an ex-Jacobin and erstwhile friend.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONHe is too scrupulous to seek to seduce the wife of another; he even fears to contract an illicit intimacy with a maid or a widow.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)What is it that gives evil governments their influence, but their power to terrify, and their wealth and honours to seduce?
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMA whisper at Ispahan, 'Kerbogha is of the Ismaelians; he moves disguised as a dervish to seduce the emirs.'
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISHis last resource was an attempt to seduce the loyalty of the besiegers.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONWORDS RELATED TO SEDUCE
- abandon
- be unfaithful
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow the whistle
- bluff
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- commit treason
- cross
- deceive
- deliver up
- delude
- desert
- double-cross
- finger
- forsake
- go back on
- inform against
- inform on
- jilt
- knife
- let down
- mislead
- play Judas
- play false
- seduce
- sell down the river
- sell out
- stab in the back
- take in
- trick
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- walk out on
- apple-polish
- argue into
- banter
- beguile
- blandish
- bootlick
- brown-nose
- butter up
- con
- deceive
- delude
- dupe
- entice
- entrap
- get around
- get next to
- hand a line
- induce
- influence
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- lure
- make up to
- maneuver
- mislead
- oil
- play up to
- push
- rub the right way
- seduce
- snow
- soap
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- tantalize
- tempt
- urge
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
- allures
- beguiles
- bewitches
- charms
- dazzles
- delights
- draws
- enamours
- enraptures
- enslaves
- ensnares
- entertains
- enthralls
- entrances
- fascinates
- gratifies
- grips
- holds
- hooks
- hypnotizes
- infatuates
- intrigues
- lures
- magnetizes
- makes a hit with
- mesmerizes
- pleases
- rope in
- seduces
- spellbs
- sweeps off one's feet
- takes
- vamps
- wiles
- wins
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