beguile
verb (used with object)
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
unbeguiled
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a word derived from
beguile.
Example Sentences
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At me you smiled, but unbeguiled I saw the snare, and I retired: The daughter of a hundred Earls, You are not one to be desired.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
Chat on, sweet maid, and rescue from annoy, Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled; Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy, The heart-love of a child!
From Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life by Belle Moses
Dares he behold the thing he is, what thing He would become is in his mind its child; Astir, demanding birth to light and wing; For battle prompt, by pleasure unbeguiled.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
A sweet pale child— Wearily looking to the purple West— Waiting the great For-ever That suddenly shall sever The cruel chains that hold her from her rest— By earth-joys unbeguiled.
From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll
But I hold my thought alone and by others unbeguiled; 'Tis the deed that is unholy shall have issue, child on child, Sin on sin, like his begetters; and they shall be as they were.
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
