Beguiling

Word BEGUILING
Character 9
Hyphenation be guil ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Beguiling"

What do we mean by beguiling?

To deceive or delude (using guile).

To charm, delight or captivate.

To cause (time) to seem to pass quickly, by way of pleasant diversion.

Bewitched or charmed. Seduced, tricked or deceived by beauty or other assets. Urban Dictionary

Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way. Or help (time) pass pleasantly. Urban Dictionary

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The word "beguiling" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page. ❋ Unknown (2002)

What makes the story beguiling is Smiley’s appreciation of the varieties and frailties of human nature. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Take a lesson from the "beguiling" Mike Huckabee's political rhetoric rulebook. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (1871)

I happened to meet Belinda in Boston one night and she ... well, she can be so beguiling. ❋ V.C.Andrews (2011)

Sarah blinked for a moment, then laughed, her voice light and curiously beguiling. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

Tess Gilchrest knew she had a talent for forming close friendships with people she had only just met or who had been no more than a recognizable face until a shared experience brought them briefly under the spell of her beguiling gregariousness. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

She waved her hands about her like the fans of a geisha girl, pretending to hide her flirtatious eyes and beguiling smile between her small fingers. ❋ V.C.Andrews (2011)

The world of the beguiling and often moving songs, artfully sung by three vocalists baritone Jorell Williams is a standout with accompaniment by a piano-and-strings trio, proves tricky to focus on from the seats farthest from the music-making. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

Salvation rose reluctantly from the dark depths of my memory and I heard my voice, calm and relaxed, gently beguiling in a swinish way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When it came to someone as lovely and beguiling as Marjorie, that hovering-over turned to “an angry roar.” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

She beguiled me until I was almost [persuaded]. [The child] beguiled [the audience] with a voice like an angel. ❋ Tipit (2013)

"every prominent American artist has been [beguiled] by [Maine]" Or "to beguile some of the time they went to the [movie theater]" ❋ TyphoonT (2015)

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