Entice vs Deceive - What's the difference?
entice | deceive |
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
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To trick or mislead.
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As verbs the difference between entice and deceive
is that entice is to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope while deceive is to trick or mislead.entice
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Verb
(entic)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
See also
* beguile * tempt * seduceReferences
* *deceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}