beguilement
乞讨,乞求,乞讨行为,恳求
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Definitions
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be·guiled, be·guil·ing.
- : to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
- : to take away from by cheating or deceiving: to be beguiled of money.
- : to charm or divert: a multitude of attractions to beguile the tourist.
- : to pass pleasantly: beguiling the long afternoon with a good book.
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Examples
Its basic properties have beguiled curious minds as far back as Plato and Aristotle.
“If we get one mission there, Venus will beguile the world and more will follow,” Dyar says.
The term remains a handy tag we stick on deeds which in our beguilement or cowardice we cannot or will not confront.
The first annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival was an ambitious beguilement.
The first-annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival was an ambitious beguilement.
Then followed much similar feminine beguilement; the faculty for which seems to be rather increased by the Jordan bath.
"Don't go," said Esther, in a conventional prettiness, but no such beguilement as she had wafted through the telephone.
The few sous spent upon such beguilement of long winter nights were most likely economized by some little deprivation.
In any case they must be taken for what they are: a beguilement of lone moments of leisure.
How abounding in beguilement are all his words, like lovers' sidelong glances, and honey of Hybla to the tongue!