Ensnaring
71capture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. seize, apprehend, arrest; grab; bag, snare, trap, nab (inf.), collar (sl.). See restraint. Ant., release. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. capturing, seizing, taking, seizure, acquisition, acquirement,… …
72insidious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. deceitful; treacherous. See deception, improbity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceptive, ensnaring, treacherous, stealthy; see dishonest 1 , false 1 , secret 3 , sly 1 . III (Roget s 3… …
73treacherous — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Traitorous] Syn. treasonable, falsehearted, unfaithful, faithless; see false 1 . 2. [Unreliable] Syn. deceptive, undependable, dangerous, risky, misleading, tricky, dissembled, untrustworthy, deceitful, false, twofaced,… …
74ensnare — 1570s, from EN (Cf. en ) (1) make, put in + SNARE (Cf. snare). Related: Ensnared; ensnaring …
75ensnare — [[t]ɪnsne͟ə(r)[/t]] ensnares, ensnaring, ensnared 1) VERB If you ensnare someone, you gain power over them, especially by using dishonest or deceitful methods. [V n] Feminism is simply another device to ensnare women... [V ed] We find ourselves… …
76catching — catch·ing || kætʃɪŋ adj. infectious, contagious (of a disease) n. snatching, grasping; trapping, ensnaring kætʃ n. capture; loot; latch; sarcasm; trick, something suspicious; romantic partner with many positive qualities (Slang) v.… …
77entanglement — an embarrassing or clandestine association Literally, an ensnaring or enmeshing. It may refer to extramarital sexual relationships and other ill advised adventures: Mr Hurd sought to extricate Lady Thatcher and other ministers from… …
78captious — a. 1. Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous (colloq.), contentious. 3. Ensnaring, insidious …
79deceive — deceive, mislead, delude, beguile, betray, double crossmean to lead astray or into evil or to frustrate by under handedness or craft. A person or thing deceives one by leading one to take something false as true, something nonexistent as real,… …
80captious — adj 1. faultfinding, carping, nagging, caviling; scoffing, impugning, picking, Inf. picky; hard to please, hypercritical, critical, biting, cutting, belittling, deprecating; chiding, reproachful, censorious, disapprobatory, disapproving,… …
