Inveigle

persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery

Nancy Townsley

Nancy Townsley

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Hugh Laurie used the word "inveigle" in an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert a while back and I don't know if I'll ever be the same. Inveigle inveigle inveigle. Gosh I love learning new words.

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Fenny Goldfish

Fenny Goldfish

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What's the betting that a certain Mr N Fartage of Sarf Lunnon spent much of the last 30+ years trying to inveigle himself into a high powered boys' club and is now thanking his lucky stars he didn't make it?

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Don Curren πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

Don Curren πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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β€œWe watch #Churchill as he manoeuvres his way through the war, trying to inveigle the #Americans into the war, then trying to control #Roosevelt and #Stalin, and we cannot help but project forward to today. There are so many echoes with what’s going on now …” https://fivebooks.com/best-books/nonfiction-2026-duff-cooper-andrew-holgate/ #books

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