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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of entice.

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Examples

  • Petros declined to say whether he thought Hewana had been "enticed" to give a different arrest time.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • His explanation of that word "enticed" had been so thoroughly satisfactory to her that she was no longer in the least angry with herself because she had enticed him.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • But after that word, that odious word, "enticed," there went another letter up to London of altogether another nature.

    Ayala's Angel 1993

  • His explanation of that word "enticed" had been so thoroughly satisfactory to her that she was no longer in the least angry with herself because she had enticed him.

    Ayala's Angel 1881

  • But after that word, that odious word, "enticed," there went another letter up to London of altogether another nature.

    Ayala's Angel 1881

  • But after that word, that odious word, "enticed," there went another letter up to London of altogether another nature.

    Ayala's Angel 1881

  • Great was the anger of the owner of the man to find that he had unmistakably "enticed" the maid.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • The indictment provides little detail regarding how they were recruited or coerced, other than to say that one was "enticed" into having sex with gang members before she was turned over to paying customers.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Google's lead in online search advertising, new advertisers are "enticed" to use Manishin's word to use Google.

    Round Two: Is Google A Monopoly? - NYTimes.com 2010

  • Citing concerns for impressionable minors who can be "enticed" to gamble, as well as the potential for online gaming to be used for money laundering, Santiago recommended severe penalties for anyone who would violate the bill.

    Poker News 2009

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