Shill vs Entice - What's the difference?
shill | entice |
A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
* 1983 , , Prometheus Rising ,
An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
* 1994 , , The Crossing ,
(pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
* 1996 , , The Demon-Haunted World ,
To put under cover; to sheal.
(UK, obsolete, dialect) To shell.
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
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As verbs the difference between shill and entice
is that shill is (pejorative) to promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly while entice is to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.As a noun shill
is a person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.shill
English
(wikipedia shill)Noun
(en noun)- You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
- Witnesses have testified that Jim Jones (like a few other professional faith-healers) used shills part of the time....
- The pitchman swept his cane in a slow acceleration over the heads of the crowd and then suddenly pointed the silver cap toward Billy and the shill .
Verb
(en verb)- Today there are even commercials in which real scientists, some of considerable distinction, shill for corporations. They teach that scientists too will lie for money. As Tom Paine warned, inuring us to lies lays the groundwork for many other evils.
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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.
