Definition

1. Verb:
   • To blandish; to coax; to sweet-talk: To use flattering or pleasing words to deceive someone, to persuade someone to do something or to believe something false.
   • To lure; to entice: To attract or tempt someone by making false promises or using deception.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Đừng để họ phỉnh bạn bằng những lời đường mật. (Don't let them coax you with sweet talk.)
  • Hắn ta phỉnh nộp tiền rồi bỏ trốn. (He lured [them] into handing over money and then ran away.)
  • Cô ấy không dễ bị phỉnh. (She is not easily deceived by flattery.)

Advanced Usage

• "phỉnh phờ": A variant often used for emphasis, meaning to coax or deceive with persistent sweet talk.
  • Tôi đã bị hắn phỉnh phờ mất một khoản tiền lớn. (I was swindled/conned out of a large sum of money by him.)
• "phỉnh gạt": To cheat or swindle through coaxing and deception.
  • Bọn lừa đảo chuyên dùng chiêu phỉnh gạt người già. (Scammers often use tricks to swindle the elderly.)

Variants and Related Words

• Dỗ (v): To coax, to cajole (can be neutral or positive, like coaxing a child, and less negative than ).
• Nịnh (v): To flatter, to adulate (focuses on the act of flattery itself, which is a key component of ).
• Lừa phỉnh (v): To deceive through coaxing and trickery.
• Lừa dối (v): To deceive, to cheat (a more general term for deception).

Synonyms

• Lừa gạt: To cheat, to swindle.
• Dụ dỗ: To entice, to seduce (into doing something).
• Tán tỉnh: To flirt, to court (can involve sweet talk but with romantic intent).

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Phỉnh nịnh: To flatter and coax (combining and for emphasis).
  • Hắn chỉ giỏi nghề phỉnh nịnh. (He's only good at the art of flattery and deception.)
• Bị phỉnh: To be coaxed/deceived.
  • Cậu ấy non nớt nên dễ bị phỉnh. (He is naive so he is easily deceived.)

Related Idioms

• Phỉnh lừa thế gian: To deceive the world (a literary expression for large-scale deception).
  • Trò phỉnh lừa thế gian của tên trùm lừa đảo cuối cùng cũng bị bại lộ. (The scam kingpin's grand deception of the world was finally exposed.)
• Mồi phỉnh: Bait used for coaxing/deceiving.
  • Những lời hứa viển vông đó chỉ là mồi phỉnh. (Those empty promises are just deceptive bait.)

1. Blandish; coax
   • Phỉnh ai làm việc gì
     To coax someone into doing something