inveigle

inveigle \in-VAY-guhl; -VEE-\, transitive verb: 1. To persuade by ingenuity or flattery; to entice. 2. To obtain by ingenuity or flattery. Deep Blue had tried to inveigle Kasparov into grabbing several pawn offers, but the champion was not fooled. -- Robert Byrne, "Kasparov and Computer Play to a Draw", New York Times, February 14, 1996 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. -- Tom Humphries, "Big Cas cameos will be missed", Irish Times, May 4, 2000 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. -- Rachel Cusk, Saving Agnes 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. -- Matthew Norman, "Diary", The Guardian, January 1, 2003 Inveigle comes from Anglo-French enveogler, from Old French aveugler, "to blind, to lead astray as if blind," from aveugle, "blind," from Medieval Latin ab oculis, "without eyes."

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