Nancy Townsley
@nancytownsley.bsky.social
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.
persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery
Nancy Townsley
@nancytownsley.bsky.social
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
@fennygoldfish.bsky.social
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 π¨π¦πΊπ¦
@dbcurren.bsky.social
βWe 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 whatβs going on now β¦β https://fivebooks.com/best-books/nonfiction-2026-duff-cooper-andrew-holgate/ #books
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