| 单词 | beguiling |
| 释义 | beguiling (once / 5356 pages) adj Beguiling is an adjective that means "highly attractive and tempting," like the beguiling model/actress on the cover of a celebrity magazine. Beguiling is often used to describe a person, like a beautiful girl, but can also be used when referring to a place or an inanimate object, like an Italian sports car. But be careful — sometimes beguiling things are meant to trick you, like the beguiling salesperson who acts like a friend, only to make a sale. In fact, beguiling contains the word guile, meaning "deceit, fraud, ruse, trickery." WORD FAMILYbeguiling: beguilingly+/beguile: beguiled, beguilement, beguiler, beguiles, beguiling/beguilement: beguilements/beguiler: beguilers USAGE EXAMPLESA beguiling mystery in an exotic setting, from the best-selling author of “The Historian.” Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) It is a wild, isolated and beguiling place. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Letterman’s gimmick here was contrast: A glamorous woman with a beguiling accent pounding In-N-Out burgers as a dweeby comic peppered her with innuendo. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1adj highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire the voice was low and beguiling Syn alluring, enticing, tempting seductive tending to entice into a desired action or state 2adj misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes Syn dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive |
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