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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inveigle .
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Examples
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He orders her about, tells bad jokes, eats her paperback novels, and slowly but inexorably inveigles his way into her lonely life.
Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt – review Clare Clark 2010
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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!
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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.
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Naturally you ask him no difficult questions, you simply treat him—his very tininess inveigles you into doing so—like a child.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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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 2009
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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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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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.
"Deceptively simple" Roger Sutton 2007
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Here, Gilmour coaches, inveigles and scolds Jesse into finish some homework.
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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." Ann Althouse 2008
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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.
5814738 commented on the word inveigles
"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.
September 27, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word inveigles
One wonders whether "Fohm" in Casey's comment citation below is a typo that should have been rendered föhn or foehn?
September 27, 2011
bilby commented on the word inveigles
GHibbs, lookee here!
September 27, 2011