nudging

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of nudge
2. noun The act of giving a nudge; pushing, touching.
3. noun Hinting or influencing people's choices (according to nudge theory); softly controlling.

   It has been remarked that nudging is also a euphemism for psychological manipulation as practiced in social engineering.

Similar words

prod poke at moving shifting scrolling displacing jostling shove push jostle

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