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
It showed uncommon skill along its rowdy defensive line, at tackling across the board, at receiver especially with Mike Williams and, of course, at quarterback where junior Deshaun Watson provided both management and bedazzlement.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2016
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
Before this horizon of marvels, Bouvard and Pécuchet experienced a kind of bedazzlement.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
