beguile

influence by slyness

To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

Old French: beguiler (to deceive)

“And is't not written that I shall beguile Shagpat by its means, and master the Event, and shame the King of Oolb and his Court?”

— George Meredith, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

“A special display room was built to beguile the fashionable company.”