Synonyms:
lure, enticement, come-on
Meaning: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
entice, lure, tempt
Meaning: provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
Usage examples
"Perhaps the pirates have come and by this cry are trying to lure us out," answered her mother cautiously.
Peter offered to follow the young man to his home city, and find some way to lure him back into McGivney's power.
As falcon who has long been on the wing, Who, without seeing either lure or bird, Maketh the falconer say, "Ah me, thou stoopest,"
Yet that can scarcely be, for they are older than himself. Veneering has been in their confidence throughout, and has done much to lure them to the altar.
As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.
It warps itself a thousand times about what look to be open and inviting paths, only to lure the rider into blind and impassable spine-defended "bottoms of the bag," leaving him to retreat, if he can, with the points of the compass whirling in his head.
East Liverpool (44 miles) and Wellsville (48 miles) are long stretches of pottery and tile-making works, both of them on the Ohio shore. There is nothing there to lure us, however, and we determined to camp on the banks of Yellow Creek (51 miles), a peaceful little Ohio stream some two rods in width, its mouth crossed by two great iron spans, for railway and highway.