Monday Word: Inveigle

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

inveigle [in-vey-guhl]

verb

1. to win over by wiles: entice
2. to acquire by ingenuity or flattery

examples
1. On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver. Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
2. Norman Mailer tried to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy, and not long after wrote a cruel letter to Styron, breaking off their friendship. —Marion Winik, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
3. Before dessert, both Leonard and Ambrose had inveigled invitations. Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead

origins
Anglo-French enveegler, aveogler, avogler to blind, hoodwink, from avogle, enveugle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis, literally, lacking eyes

Comments

[sallymn]

A word I am very fond of :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay!