beguile
verb (used with object)
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
beguilement
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a word derived from
beguile.
Example Sentences
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And “You Can See Everything” makes clear, beguilement exists beyond fact or even truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
And when Dragan is finally captured, and the townspeople are forced to reckon with their foolish beguilement, her secret emerges.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
Indomitable and irreplaceable, embodying glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.
From Time ● Apr. 14, 2011
What Mr. Ackermann needed was not more beguilement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2011
"I'll venture you," said Cousin Delight; and the trifling words conveyed a real, earnest confidence, the best possible antidote to the "beguilement."
From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
