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beguilingadjective clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansa smart and beguiling child who can manipulate her parents with alarming ease artful, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting tending or having power to deceivethe beguiling allure of a life of crime deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading, specious artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wilyinaccurate, incorrect, wrongbewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzlingambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthfulbogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive(slang), phony(also phoney), sham, spuriousinsidious, perfidious, treacherousambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasiveartificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straightclarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminatingrevealing, revelatoryhonest, trustworthy, truthful beguilingverbpresent participle of beguileto attract or delight as if by magicthe magician effortlessly beguiled and amazed the children alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, killing, magnetizing, wiling, witching(archaic) disarming, drawing, enticing, luring, pulling, seducing, temptingdelighting, gratifying, pleasingarresting, enrapturing, enthralling, entrancingappealing (to), interesting, intriguingbeckoning, courting, inviting, soliciting, wooing disgusting, offending, repelling, revoltingannoying, displeasing, irkingboring, tiring, wearying to cause to believe what is untruebeguiled her into believing that yet another worthless item would enhance her life bamboozling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deceiving, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on(chiefly British), hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking kidding, putting on, teasingbleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling doing a number on, leading one down the garden path(also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes undeceiving debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmaskingdisclosing, divulging, telling, unveilingdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantagewas beguiled by the promise of easy money as a drug dealer alluring, baiting, betraying, decoying, enticing, leading on, luring, seducing, soliciting, tempting drawing in, inveigling, persuading, roping (in), snowingcatching, enmeshing(also immeshing), ensnaring, entrapping, meshing, snaring, tangling, trappingbewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, magnetizing, wiling alerting, cautioning, forewarning, warding (off), warningdriving (away or off), repulsing, turning away in 1646 |