Usually means: Drawing attention away as distraction.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. decoying: Merriam-Webster
  2. decoying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decoying: Vocabulary.com
  4. decoying: Wordnik
  5. decoying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decoying: Wiktionary
  7. Decoying, decoying: Dictionary.com
  8. Decoying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Decoying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. decoying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. decoying: FreeDictionary.org
  12. decoying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. decoying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decoying: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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noun:  The act of one who decoys.

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