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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

alluring, amusing, appealing, appetizing, attractive, bewildering, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, deceiving, deceptive, delightful, deluding, delusive, delusory, diverting, dubious, enchanting, engaging, enigmatic, enravishing, entertaining, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exceptional, exciting, exotic, extraordinary, fabulous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fascinating, fetching, fishy, flirtatious, fun, glamorous, hallucinatory, humorous, hypnotic, illusive, illusory, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, marvelous, mesmeric, miraculous, misleading, mouth-watering, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, piquant, prepossessing, prodigious, provocative, provoquant, puzzling, questionable, rare, ravishing, recreational, remarkable, seducing, seductive, sensational, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strange, striking, stupendous, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, tickling, titillating, titillative, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, winning, winsome, witching, wonderful, wondrous

Dictionary Results for beguiling:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

beguiling
    adj 1: highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an
           alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was
           low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing
           advertisement"; "a tempting invitation" [syn: alluring,
           beguiling, enticing, tempting]
    2: misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken
       in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beguile \Be*guile"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beguiled; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Beguiling.]
   1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or
      impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
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            The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. --Gen. iii.
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   2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.]
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            When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. --Shak.
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   3. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve
      the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert.
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            Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring.
                                                  --W. Irving.
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   Syn: To delude; deceive; cheat; insnare; mislead; amuse;
        divert; entertain.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beguiling \Be*guil"ing\, a.
   Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting. --
   Be*guil"ing*ly, adv.
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