inveigle
[in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-]
-transitive verb
Definition: To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice.
-transitive verb
Definition: To obtain by ingenuity or flattery.
Quotes:
1. Deep Blue had tried to inveigle Kasparov into grabbing several pawn offers, but the champion was not fooled. — New York Times, Robert Byrne, February 14, 1996, "Kasparov and Computer Play to a Draw"
2. He used to tell one about Kevin Moran ringing him up pretending to be a French radio journalist and inveigling Cas, new in France, into parlaying his three words of French into an interview. — Irish Times, Tom Humphries, May 4, 2000, "Big Cas cameos will be missed"
3. Once a soft touch for these ragged moralists who inveigled her into sparing them her change, Agnes began to cross the road, begging for some change in her circumstances. — Saving Agnes, Rachel Cusk
4. In fact, he spent the entire time in the car park, waiting for eye witnesses from whom to inveigle quotes he could use as his own. — The Guardian, Matthew Norman, January 1, 2003, "Diary"
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