Beguile \Be*guile"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beguiled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Beguiling.]
1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or
impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
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The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. --Gen. iii.
13.
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2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.]
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When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. --Shak.
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3. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve
the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
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Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring.
--W. Irving.
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Syn: To delude; deceive; cheat; insnare; mislead; amuse;
divert; entertain.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beguiling \Be*guil"ing\, a.
Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
beguiling
adj 1: highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an
alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice
was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an
enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation" [syn:
alluring, enticing, tempting]
2: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken
in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "beguiling":
alluring, amusing, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bewildering,
bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, catchy,
charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, deceiving,
deceptive, delightful, deluding, delusive, delusory, diverting,
dubious, enchanting, engaging, enigmatic, enravishing,
entertaining, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exceptional,
exciting, exotic, extraordinary, fabulous, fallacious, false,
fantastic, fascinating, fetching, fishy, flirtatious, fun,
glamorous, hallucinatory, humorous, hypnotic, illusive, illusory,
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, interesting,
intriguing, inviting, irresistible, marvelous, mesmeric,
miraculous, misleading, mouth-watering, outlandish,
passing strange, phenomenal, piquant, prepossessing, prodigious,
provocative, provoquant, puzzling, questionable, rare, ravishing,
recreational, remarkable, seducing, seductive, sensational, siren,
sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strange, striking, stupendous,
taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating,
titillative, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unheard-of, unimaginable,
unique, unprecedented, winning, winsome, witching, wonderful,
wondrous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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