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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But Coppola is altogether more interested in how the women register their own beguilement, and also how McBurney, with more instinct than calculation, manipulates their sympathies and awakens their repressed desires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
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 the movies, glamour, excess and beguilement, she was the Hollywood star.
From Time ● Mar. 23, 2011
What Mr. Ackermann needed was not more beguilement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2011
It was at Coney Island, that astonishing permanent and magnified Earl's Court Exhibition, summer Blackpool and August-Bank-Holiday-Hampstead-Heath, which New York supports for its beguilement.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 by Various
