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Meanings of inveigle in English

Portuguese
adular

Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering.

      adular

      To attract or provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion.

            Usage of inveigle in English
            1
            However Kelly's character manages to inveigle her way out of the situation.
            The Irish Times
            2
            Perhaps he'd even inveigle one or both of them as new patrons.
            Casket of Souls
            3
            Couple then tried to inveigle middle-aged plump lady newcomer into taking it.
            The new yorker
            4
            What do you mean-areyou trying to inveigle me into marrying her?
            Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
            5
            The oldest might inveigle his boy as well as the youngest.
            John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
            6
            He proposes we should join in some conspiracy to inveigle Mrs.
            Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
            7
            He burst out laughing at this, and tried to inveigle her into good-humor.
            A Perilous Secret
            8
            Even that suggestion failed to inveigle Job into a better humor.
            Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
            9
            Then he'll send the boy to school and inveigle her back to the East.
            The Keeper of the Door
            10
            He tried to inveigle me also into it, but I remained glum and silent.
            Youth
            11
            I want to inveigle him into lending me his motor.
            The Keeper of the Door
            12
            Two women tried simultaneously for many years to inveigle him into matrimony, in vain.
            The Irish Times
            13
            Every winter she tries to inveigle me there in the hope to see me married.
            Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
            14
            The more religions and the more follies the better: they inveigle proselytes from one another.'
            Art in England: Notes and Studies
            15
            Because they want to inveigle you away-onthe staff.
            The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
            16
            He had tried to inveigle me into killing myself.
            John Barleycorn
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            adular
            Inveigle through the time
            Inveigle across language varieties
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