Definitions
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- adjective Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
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- verb Present participle of
beguile . - noun A
beguilement . - adjective That beguiles or
beguile .
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- adjective misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
- adjective highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
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Examples
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Slightly more beguiling is the debate format, where representatives of contrasting positions do battle, and leave it to the reader to decide — with the implicaiton that the reader is now somehow in a position to do so.
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It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page.
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What makes the story beguiling is Smiley’s appreciation of the varieties and frailties of human nature.
Good Faith: Summary and book reviews of Good Faith by Jane Smiley. 2003
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Perhaps I had been asked to show it, with the notion of beguiling me from my misery; perhaps I was myself trying to drown my sorrows in it.
My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878
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Perhaps I had been asked to show it, with the notion of beguiling me from my misery; perhaps I was myself trying to drown my sorrows in it.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Take a lesson from the "beguiling" Mike Huckabee's political rhetoric rulebook.
Kathleen Reardon: What Happened To "Nice Guys Finish Last"? 2008
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Bengel makes the adulteress who fills their eyes, to be "alluring desire." that cannot cease -- "that cannot be made to cease from sin." beguiling -- "laying baits for." unstable -- not firmly established in faith and piety. heart -- not only the eyes, which are the channel, but the heart, the fountain head of lust.
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Sarah blinked for a moment, then laughed, her voice light and curiously beguiling.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
Prolagus commented on the word beguiling
There's something in my eye, a little midge so beguiling
Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye
"I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear"
...You missed my eye, I wonder why I didn't complain
.(Another sunny day, by Belle and Sebastian)
April 27, 2008