beguile
verb (used with object)
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
was beguiling
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past progressiveof beguile.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"I think it presented so much that was beguiling to contemporaries, but also clearly that Bowie himself found fascinating."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
This dessert was beguiling and has truly been dancing in my head ever since.
From Salon ● May 24, 2023
The calligraphy was beguiling and I said, why not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
L’Wren Scott was beguiling to her friends, so I can’t imagine what strangers thought of her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014
In a word, the captain was beguiling the tediousness of attendance at court, by an attempt at authorship; and was rewriting and extending his travelling notes, and making maps of the regions he had explored.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
