inveiglement
Seductive manipulation tactic
Inveiglement is the act of enticing or luring someone into something through flattery, deception, or clever persuasion.
The word carries connotations of manipulation—someone inveigled into a scheme didn't enter it clear-eyed: The inveiglement of investors required months of carefully cultivated trust.
Convincing through reasoning
- coaxingPersuading through gentle persistence
- cajoleryFlattery meant to persuade
- wheedlingPersuading through flattery
- blandishmentFlattering words to persuade
sweet-talk · inducement · seduction · temptation · lure · coercion · pressure · influence
Deliberate deception or fraud
- guileSly, strategic dishonesty
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- deceitDeliberate misleading of others
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
duplicity · subterfuge · artifice · chicanery · wiles · ruse · stratagem · scheming
Attractive, tempting quality
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- captivationState of being fascinated
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- fascinationIntense absorbed interest
beguiling · bewitchment · sirens · coquetry · flirtation · come-hither · tantalizing · irresistibility
persuasion
Convincing through reasoning
- coaxingPersuading through gentle persistence
- cajoleryFlattery meant to persuade
- wheedlingPersuading through flattery
blandishment · sweet-talk · inducement · seduction · temptation · lure · coercion · pressure · influence · suasion
trickery
Deliberate deception or fraud
fraud · duplicity · subterfuge · artifice · chicanery · wiles · ruse · stratagem · scheming · swindling
allure
Attractive, tempting quality
- temptationUrge toward the unwise
- captivationState of being fascinated
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
fascination · beguiling · bewitchment · sirens · coquetry · flirtation · come-hither · tantalizing · irresistibility · seductiveness
inveiglementcoercion
Pressured compliance through threats
compulsion · force · intimidation · threat · duress
enticing, entice, beguile, enticement, inveigle, enticed, beguiled, beguilement, inveigling