amuse
verb (used with object)
to hold the attention of (someone) pleasantly; entertain or divert in an enjoyable or cheerful manner.
amuser
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a word derived from
amuse.
Example Sentences
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Jones described the book as an "amuse cerveau," or "brain amuser."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
Look at the qualities that go to the making of a successful amuser of people.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
Dante answered bitterly: ‘No, not strange; your Highness is to recollect the Proverb, Like to Like;’—given the amuser, the amusee must also be given!
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Dante answered bitterly: "No, not strange; your Highness is to recollect the Proverb, Like to Like;"—given the amuser, the amusee must also be given!
From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Yet he did not like Keene the worse for the impatient gesture with which the latter shook himself loose, muttering, “Je vous croyais trop sage, M. le Vicomte, pour vous amuser avec ces balivernes de romancier.”
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
