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UK
/bɪɡˈaɪlɪŋ/
]
[ US /bɪˈɡaɪɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /bɪˈɡaɪɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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 -
misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes
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