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Word entry · 7 letters

beguile

Best crossword clue

"Charm deceptively"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /bɪˈɡaɪl/Part of speech verbSorted beegiluStarts with BEnds with E1 clues
1B2E3G4U5I6L7E

Definitions

  1. attract; cause to be enamored

Word origin

From Middle English begilen, begylen; equivalent to be- + guile. Compare Middle Dutch begilen (“to beguile”). Doublet of bewile.

Used in a sentence

  • And as wililye as thoſe ſhrewes that beguyle hym haue holpe hym to inuolue and intryke the matter: I ſhall vſe ſo playn and open a way therin, that euery man ſhall well ſee the trouth.
  • I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.
  • 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

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