beguiling
Example Sentences
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Chuffing, growling and panting as he stalks the boat’s perimeter, he is at once beguiling, gentlemanly and quite dangerous.
From New York Times
The results suggest nautilus shells, orderly yet beguilingly sinuous.
From Washington Post
It’s that quality — fearless, untethered and unwilling to put down roots, let alone look for the ones that have already been pulled up — that makes her so beguiling and unknowable.
From Washington Post
One of the attractions of contemporary puzzle movies — with their ambiguities and labyrinths, unreliable narrators and storytelling thickets — is that their complexities are by turns beguiling and confounding but also familiar.
From New York Times
But dreaming of the day alien life may be discovered hiding in Martian rocks is an undeniably beguiling thought.
From Scientific American
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