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inveigle (in-VAY-guhl) - v., to entice, lure, or win over by flattery or inducements (usually followed by into); to obtain by guile, cunning, or cajolery (often followed by from or away).
You can inveigle a mark into a 'friendly' game of cards or inveigle a ticket to a swank soiree. There isn't necessarily a connotation of deception or nefarious goals, but there is one that this is not really in the best interests of the inveigled. Dates to the late 1500s as envegle, formerly Anglo-French enveogler, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind/hoodwink, from aveugle/avogle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus, eyeless, from Late Latin ab oculīs, without eyes (where ab- is literally "away from").
---L.
You can inveigle a mark into a 'friendly' game of cards or inveigle a ticket to a swank soiree. There isn't necessarily a connotation of deception or nefarious goals, but there is one that this is not really in the best interests of the inveigled. Dates to the late 1500s as envegle, formerly Anglo-French enveogler, alteration of Old French aveugler, to blind/hoodwink, from aveugle/avogle, blind, from Vulgar Latin *aboculus, eyeless, from Late Latin ab oculīs, without eyes (where ab- is literally "away from").
---L.
