Decoy vs Cajole - What's the difference?
decoy | cajole |
A person or object meant to lure something to danger.
A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
To act or use a decoy.
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
* Goldsmith
(transitive, and, intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax.
* 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 12:
* 1820 , , The Abbot , ch. 27:
* 1894 , , Only An Irish Boy , ch. 19:
* 1898 , , The Battle Of The Strong , ch. 37:
* 1917 , , King Coal , ch. 8:
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As verbs the difference between decoy and cajole
is that decoy is to act or use a decoy while cajole is .As a noun decoy
is a person or object meant to lure something to danger.decoy
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to decoy''' troops into an ambush; to '''decoy ducks into a net
- E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy , / The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
Derived terms
* dekeAnagrams
*cajole
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Verb
- Then he cajoled with his brother, and persuaded him what service he had done him.
- If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?
- He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.
- [W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.
- Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.
NonSTARTer? Obama's Troubled Nuclear Treaty," Time :
- For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole , convince and placate Republicans.
