Inveigle

persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery

Ursula Huws

Ursula Huws

@ursulahuws.bsky.social

Today's clerihew:

If you tried to inveigle
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Into dissing Napoleon Bonaparte
You would just be thrown apart

(dialectically, of course)

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Stuart Neil

Stuart Neil

@tetherin.bsky.social

More than just that. It provided charlatans and grifters a platform in inveigle their way into the MAGA crowd to position themselves to exact ‘retribution’ on scientists for doing research they don’t like. It’s a modern day book burning led by the likes Bhattacharya and the BSNow crew.

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️

@paperpills10.bsky.social

2. at which he would flaunt his ineptitude as if it were some majestic whim, and parry with great thrusts of healthy lodge humor any attempt to inveigle him into the sub- tleties of the parley-voo.
#Nabokov24 #Pnin

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