beguiling

[ UK /bɪɡˈa‍ɪlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /bɪˈɡaɪɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
    an alluring prospect
    the voice was low and beguiling
    difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement
    a tempting invitation
    her alluring smile
  2. misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
    taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes
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How To Use beguiling In A Sentence

  • Her portrayal as a hypochondriac makes for a beguiling approach and probably gives an accurate description of her journey.
  • Her dreamy, cinematic songs were bewitching, her jerky dance moves beguiling. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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. Perils of pop philosophy
  • This is perhaps the most beguiling resort on the island.
  • One of the rehearsal modes, subsong, is especially beguiling. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I have a burst of instant nostalgia whenever I stroll through its rather beguiling streets.
  • The result is a beguiling and wistful study of displaced people that conveys the paradoxical loneliness and richness of cosmopolitan life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade.
  • Mombasa is a town with a beguiling Arabic flavour.
  • And who maketh any doubt, that if those sleights and trickes, whereof this dayes argument may give us occasion to speake, should afterwardes be put in execution by men: would it not minister just reason, of punishing themselves for beguiling you, knowing, that (if you please) you have the like abilitie in your owne power? The Decameron
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