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Present participle for to mislead someone with lies

Present participle for attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage

Present participle for tease

Present participle for to blatantly set out to attract

Present participle for to stimulate or excite in a pleasurable way

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Verb

Present participle for to mislead someone with lies

stringing along

putting one over on

taking for a ride

leading up the garden path

pulling a fast one on

pulling a swifty on

double-crossing

leading down the garden path

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling one's leg

selling a pup to

doing a number on

taking to the cleaners

taking advantage of

misrepresenting

making a fool of

playing a trick on

propagandising^UK

putting up smoke screen

giving wrong information to

giving the wrong impression

sending on a wild goose chase

pulling someone's leg

giving someone a bum steer

putting on the wrong track

playing trick on

putting on an act

leading up garden path

propagandizing^US

putting on false front

throwing off the scent

playing for a sucker

making a sucker of

pulling a fast one

getting the better of

playing a jest on

playing a prank on

playing a joke on

running a game on

playing games with

playing a practical joke on

playing fast and loose with

sending on a wild-goose chase

giving the runaround

laying a trap for

pulling fast one

playing joke on

taking for ride

taking to cleaners

outmaneuvering^US

outmanoeuvring^UK

selling down the river

doing the dirty on

stealing a march on

stabbing in the back

playing someone false

breaking faith with

running rings round

selling a bill of goods to

selling a bill of goods

making rings round

doing someone in the eye

doing someone dirty

beating around the bush

worming one's way out of

slipping something over on

bending the rules

stacking the cards

stretching the rules

pulling something funny

hitting below the belt

going one better than

doing number on

pulling wool over

playing for a fool

breaking the rules

giving bum steer

pulling strings

twisting around your little finger

making sport of

telling an untruth

telling a falsehood

telling a white lie

departing from the truth

perjuring oneself

forswearing oneself

making up a story

stretching the truth

not telling the truth

putting up a front

concocting a story

saying something untrue

inventing a story

telling a terminological inexactitude

committing perjury

telling stories

bearing false witness

breaking promise

telling untruths

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“Moreover, he is all too willing to induce and lead on his victims until they become hopelessly ensnared and turn in desperation to other criminal activities.”

Verb

Present participle for attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage

batting eyes at

dangling a carrot in front of

sweeping off feet

stringing along

making your mouth water

whetting the appetite of

keeping hanging

putting someone up to something

keeping someone hanging on

leading up garden path

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Present participle for tease

giving a hard time

pulling one's leg

taking the mickey

poking mullock at

taking the piss out of

pulling someone's leg

making a monkey of

poking borak at

making jokes about

making sport of

slinging off at

making a monkey out of

treating with contempt

treating contemptuously

heaping scorn on

playing the fool

making a fool of

playing a joke on

pulling someone's chain

holding up to ridicule

playing a prank

showing contempt

playing a practical joke on

holding up to shame

getting a rise out of

clowning around

taking a rise out of

playing a trick

pouring scorn on

playing a practical joke

thumbing nose at

laughing out of court

showing contempt for

telling stories

making a game of

tearing to pieces

having a joke with

hurling insults at

making a joke of

putting someone on

rotting someone

making light of

putting on an act

playing a trick on

taking for a ride

leading up the garden path

mucking someone about

shouting disapproval

blowing raspberries

shouting disapproval at

shouting catcalls at

having a joke on somebody

blowing raspberries at

giving the Bronx cheer to

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

exposing to ridicule

acting the fool

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Verb

Present participle for to blatantly set out to attract

philandering with

making advances at

giving the come-on to

batting eyes at

stringing along

making sheep's eyes at

making romantic advances to

setting your cap at

making overtures to

making advances to

making advances

behaving flirtatiously

playing the field

sleeping around

screwing around

having an affair

having relations

committing adultery

making a pass at

having affairs affair

playing fast and loose

sowing one's oats

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Verb

Present participle for to stimulate or excite in a pleasurable way

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