inveigling

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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

Dailies ran a story in which Mrs. Marcos accused Manotoc of inveigling Imee into marriage and describing her daughter as having "the mind of a 40-year-old but the heart of a ten-year-old."

From Time Magazine Archive

“And dyes?” murmured Raymond under his breath; but Frank caught the sound, and said, “Ah, Julius! don’t I remember his inveigling you into coming out with scarlet hair?”

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary