What is another word for decoys?

Pronunciation: [dˈiːkɔ͡ɪz] (IPA)

Decoys are objects or devices used to trick or lure someone or something into believing or doing something. There are various synonyms for decoys, including bait, lure, trap, enticement, seduction, temptation, allurement, and inducement. Bait is a term commonly used in fishing and refers to a substance used to attract fish. Lure, on the other hand, refers to something that attracts or tempts someone to do something. A trap is a device used to capture or ensnare animals or people. Enticement, seduction, and temptation are all synonyms for the act of enticing or tempting someone into doing something. Allurement and inducement both refer to something that attracts or entices others.

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Usage examples for Decoys

And particularly a learned Jew, because the greater the man, the greater the danger, the more is the Evil One set on his destruction, and decoys him with either riches or beautiful women; the Evil One has tools for the work at hand.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
In later years the native kings, animated by an ever-growing thirst for the white man's rum, declared war in order to secure captives, and employed decoys to lure young men into the commission of crime.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
The stock and insurance policy in my own box are decoys, eh?
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans

Famous quotes with Decoys

  • We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
    Kathie Lee Gifford
  • They started two hours before daylight, and at first, it was not necessary to break the ice across the canal as other boats had gone on ahead. In each boat, in the darkness, so you could not see, but only hear him, the poler stood in the stern, with his long oar. The shooter sat on a shooting stool fastened to the top of a box that contained his lunch and shells, and the shooter's two, or more, guns were propped against the load of wooden decoys. Somewhere, in each boat, there was a sack with one or two live mallard hens, or a hen and a drake, and in each boat there was a dog who shifted and shivered uneasily at the sound of the wings of the ducks that passed overhead in the darkness.
    Ernest Hemingway

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