bedazzle
verb (used with object)
to impress forcefully, especially so as to make oblivious to faults or shortcomings.
bedazzlement
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a word derived from
bedazzle.
Example Sentences
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Ridiculous Cakes A nervous cake artist must capture all the glamor, energy and general bedazzlement of the Las Vegas Strip in a wedding cake in the new episode “It’s Vegas, Baby.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2018
McKechnie’s charm is not diva-brand bedazzlement; it’s Midwestern sincerity and chorus line work ethic.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017
Welcoming all earnest attempts at perfect bedazzlement, and embracing, with fanfare, the effort’s futility, Ms. Minter insists only on taking the risk.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
More emblematic, though, is the album’s closer, an arrangement of the Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” that he plays alone, balancing melody, bass line and chords: beauty and bedazzlement, unabashed, all at once.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2012
His expression changed slowly from bedazzlement to the nearest approach to the old slumbrous, smiling wickedness she had seen since they started.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
