honey trap
Seductive espionage scheme
A honey trap is a scheme using romantic or sexual attraction to lure someone into a compromising situation—typically for espionage, blackmail, or exposing infidelity.
Intelligence agencies have long used honey traps to extract secrets from targets: The diplomat fell for a classic honey trap.
Private investigators sometimes employ them to test a partner's fidelity.
Woman who entices
- sirenWailing alert device
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- charmAttractive personal quality
- flirtationPlayful romantic attention
seductress · femme fatale · enchantment · coquette · vixen · desire · infatuation · beauty
Deliberate act of deception
- ployCalculated deceptive tactic
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- subterfugeDeliberate deception to conceal
charade · sham · duplicity · con · setup · sting · false pretenses · entrapment
Thing that tempts
- baitLure for prey
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- allurementQuality that attracts
- snareDevice for catching prey
trap · come-on · siren call · inducement · attraction · draw · enticing · appeal
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- agentOne who acts independently
- operativeCovert field agent
- assetItem of value owned
infiltration · counterintelligence · surveillance · covert · undercover · informant · double agent · mole
State of being unprotected
- blackmailCoercion through damaging threats
- extortionObtaining through threats
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
scandal · disgrace · ruin · coercion · exploitation · incriminating · evidence · photographs
temptress
Woman who entices
flirtation · seductress · femme fatale · enchantment · coquette · vixen · desire · infatuation · beauty · romantic
ruse
Deliberate act of deception
- ployCalculated deceptive tactic
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
subterfuge · charade · sham · duplicity · con · setup · sting · false pretenses · entrapment · manipulation
lure
Thing that tempts
- baitLure for prey
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- allurementQuality that attracts
snare · trap · come-on · siren call · inducement · attraction · draw · enticing · appeal · invitation
spy
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- agentOne who acts independently
- operativeCovert field agent
asset · infiltration · counterintelligence · surveillance · covert · undercover · informant · double agent · mole · classified
exposure
State of being unprotected
- blackmailCoercion through damaging threats
- extortionObtaining through threats
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
leverage · scandal · disgrace · ruin · coercion · exploitation · incriminating · evidence · photographs · recording
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- Spy Fictionspy, secret agent, double agent, MI6, CIA
- Spycraftspy, agent, asset, covert, handler
- deliberate deceptionsbluff, feint, misdirection, red herring, decoy
- femme fatalesfemme fatale, seductress, temptress, vixen, enchantress
- manipulationgaslighting, guilt tripping, blame-shifting, brainwashing, guilt trip
honey trapenhanced interrogation
Euphemism for abusive questioning
torture · waterboarding · wiretapping · signals intelligence · rendition
honey trapblackmail
Coercion through damaging threats
extortion · threat · intimidation · coercion · strong-arming
honey trapfear tactics
Coercion through intimidation
scare tactics · menacing · terrorizing · bullying · cold approach
honey, honeyed, honeymoon, honeycomb, honing, honeydew, honeysuckle, honeypot, honeycombed