Beguile meaning

Verb: beguile

Pronunciation: (bi’gI(-u)l)

Beguile meaning:

• Influence by slyness.
• To trick or deceive. To lead by deception.
• Cause to be enamored.

Synonyms: enamor, juggle, hoodwink, bewitch, captivate, allure, delude, cozen

Derived forms: beguiled, beguiling, beguiles

Quotations: Roger Ebert – Beguiled by George S. Bush’s easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn’t choosing a president; it’s casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

Kathleen Chalfant – One of the things about it that is important to me, and I think one of the powers of angels is its great beauty. I think it’s beautiful like Mozart. It has a rhythm and music that is just incredibly beguiling and seductive and funny. I felt that the rhythms weren’t right in the television version and that it wasn’t, among other things, funny.

Chris Van Allsburg – I am fascinated by the act of making something real that at one point is only an idea. It is challenging and beguiling to sense something inside, put it on paper or carve it in stone, and then step back and see how much has got lost in the process.

Merrill Lynch – We believe this configuration has lasted so long it may be having a beguiling effect on the market. And with no obvious catalyst for a reappearance of volatility, the obvious risk is that investors take this stability for granted.

Giuseppe Mazzini – Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a country for yourselves.

Sample sentences:

1. The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
2. I’m wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child I am.
3. I am not merry, but I do beguile that thing I am by seeming otherwise.
4. There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
5. To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
6. Come, and take choice of my entire library, and so beguile thy sorrow.
7. She beguiled all the men’s hearts with her stunning looks. She was cunning enough to beguile her classmates into doing her project work.
8. She beguiled the audience with her smooth, sweet and seductive voice.
9. The salesman tried to beguile the customers with festive offers.
10. By pretending to be a student, the undercover police officer planned to beguile the hackers.