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inveigled

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for inveigled.

Editorial note

Perhaps the ambient moral relativism has inveigled his outlook.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

(transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

verb

(transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for inveigled.

verb

(transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

verb

(transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

Example sentences

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Perhaps the ambient moral relativism has inveigled his outlook.

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The behaviour sounds almost exactly like how my stalker inveigled his way into my life and then behaved when I cut him out.

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The Young Ones inveigled its way into my psyche growing up and I'm sure I'd be a different person if I hadn't watched and rewatched it.

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It is this Procrustean bed of good character that our technology is binding us to, not some dystopian nightmare.) Certainly the criminally-minded who have inveigled their way into the halls of power should not be permitted to sleep peacefully at night, without concern for discovery.

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> pull the veil from their scams Yeah like the fluoride producers who have inveigled people, even health care professionals, to ignore the dosage rules of science, and just claim that fluoride in H2O is a viable solution to something?

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These are partly old-fashioned concerns, admittedly, but it's surprising how often the approach you're outlining is still the source of malicious PHP exploits where a script file gets buried in a hacked release, or where some server vulnerability can be inveigled into executing PHP code by some image file upload mechanism that didn't do adequate checking.

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Humans can be duped by liars and conned by frauds; manipulated by rhetoric and beguiled by self-regard; browbeaten, cajoled, seduced, intimidated, flattered, wheedled, inveigled, and ensnared.

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That said, on the one hand, given time I could've inveigled my way across the org chart into a more stable and less politically dangerous position, and on the other hand, I could've saved myself a great deal of suffering had I simply not shot off my big mouth right at the start.

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> It may be easy to leave Facebook and stay in contact with your closest friends Often it is not, because Facebook has so successfully inveigled itself into and through people's social interactions that a lot of folks just don't think about keeping in touch any other way.

Quote examples

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To prevent ourselves being inveigled by Cantor-like arguments (which imposes "pre-suppositions" on the properties of the lambdas), I suggest that we get out of this "mapping" mind set.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use inveigled in a sentence?

Perhaps the ambient moral relativism has inveigled his outlook.

What does inveigled mean?

(transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.

What part of speech is inveigled?

inveigled is commonly used as verb.