Beguile
verb
To charm or attract someone in a deceiving way.
He was beguiled by her beauty.
Often appears as...
- beguile someone into
- beguile with charm
verb
To trick or deceive someone.
He beguiled them into doing his work.
Often appears as...
- beguile someone into
- easily beguiled
verb
To help time pass pleasantly.
She beguiled her time with reading.
Often appears as...
- beguile the time
- beguile the hours
Usage tips
Literary
verb
To charm or attract someone in a deceiving way.
He was beguiled by her beauty.
Often appears as...
- beguile someone into
- beguile with charm
verb
To trick or deceive someone.
He beguiled them into doing his work.
Often appears as...
- beguile someone into
- easily beguiled
verb
To help time pass pleasantly.
She beguiled her time with reading.
Often appears as...
- beguile the time
- beguile the hours
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Persuasion
Beguile implies a sense of being led astray by charm, not just attraction.
The salesman beguiled the customers with his smooth talking.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
While 'beguile' can seem positive, it often suggests deceitfulness; it's less benign than simply 'charm'.
Advertisers often beguile us into wanting things we don't need.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Use
Use 'beguile' carefully; it can imply manipulation which may offend if used inaccurately.
She didn't just charm her friends; she beguiled them into supporting her scheme.
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Persuasion
Beguile implies a sense of being led astray by charm, not just attraction.
The salesman beguiled the customers with his smooth talking.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
While 'beguile' can seem positive, it often suggests deceitfulness; it's less benign than simply 'charm'.
Advertisers often beguile us into wanting things we don't need.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Use
Use 'beguile' carefully; it can imply manipulation which may offend if used inaccurately.
She didn't just charm her friends; she beguiled them into supporting her scheme.
Pro Tip 1/3Hidden Persuasion
Beguile implies a sense of being led astray by charm, not just attraction.
The salesman beguiled the customers with his smooth talking.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
While 'beguile' can seem positive, it often suggests deceitfulness; it's less benign than simply 'charm'.
Advertisers often beguile us into wanting things we don't need.
Pro Tip 3/3Cautious Use
Use 'beguile' carefully; it can imply manipulation which may offend if used inaccurately.
She didn't just charm her friends; she beguiled them into supporting her scheme.
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Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Have an...
starling so that I'm glad that I did I stopped because there's an image so beguiling that's I just had to show it to you of course as I say that it decides to relieve itself but he is there's two very beguiling little creatures and it allows us to continue
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Behind the lies of...
What can we do? First of all, we cannot be beguiled by rational appearances. We've got to look underneath, and we will find there the extremism. Second of all,
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Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
just a few centimeters long these baby flamboyant cuddles can beguile anyone with a shape-shift that is out of this world
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The 5 Musketeers Have an...
starling so that I'm glad that I did I stopped because there's an image so beguiling that's I just had to show it to you of course as I say that it decides to relieve itself but he is there's two very beguiling little creatures and it allows us to continue
Video examples
Behind the lies of...
What can we do? First of all, we cannot be beguiled by rational appearances. We've got to look underneath, and we will find there the extremism. Second of all,
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Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
just a few centimeters long these baby flamboyant cuddles can beguile anyone with a shape-shift that is out of this world
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Quote examples
David Gemmell
British Author
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
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Jack Thorne
English Playwright
I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
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Nina Conti
English Actress
The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.
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Elizabeth Berg
American Author
In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.
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Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
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Devendra Banhart
Venezuelan Musician
Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.
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Monica Raymund
American Actress
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.
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Jan Morris
English Writer
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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David Gemmell
British Author
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.
Quote examples
Jack Thorne
English Playwright
I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
Quote examples
Nina Conti
English Actress
The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Berg
American Author
In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.
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Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
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Devendra Banhart
Venezuelan Musician
Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.
Quote examples
Monica Raymund
American Actress
Performing is my passion. Being onstage is at once exhilarating, beguiling, and fulfilling. But it's hard.
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Jan Morris
English Writer
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
American Businessman
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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