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How to pronounce beguilement in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms animal magnetism, bewitchery
Type of attractiveness
Derivation beguile
Type Words
Synonyms distraction
Type of amusement, entertainment

Examples of beguilement

beguilement
At a modest 10,000ft, Mulanje is not an Everest, and therein lies the beguilement.
From the guardian.co.uk
From the start they were tutored in the art of beguilement, the seductive talent of getting looked at.
From the time.com
Superficially, I.V. still has the old hippie beguilement.
From the time.com
Evidently beguilement was a two-way street, but Eagan preferred the solitude of his own dark alley.
From the theatlantic.com
Johnson barricading his house to keep out an enraged unpaid milkman is one of many scenes that increase the book's beguilement.
From the newscientist.com
A naive beguilement rather than sly irony frames Rushdie's accounts of hanging out with such very famous people as Jerry Seinfeld and Calista Flockhart.
From the guardian.co.uk
For a change, the show kicked off with treachery, beguilement and betrayal, as the four judges pretended that they didn't know which category they were mentoring.
From the hecklerspray.com
Perhaps most gentle among them is Patrice Showers Corneli, but even her nature-inspired pastel landscapes stir rough beguilement out of abstract images, colors and textures.
From the sltrib.com
Now Disney and Bluth have launched a welcome new Thanksgiving tradition, each producing a feature cartoon for the rescue of baby-sitters and the beguilement of the child in every moviegoer.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Bewitchery: magnetic personal charm
  • An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
  • The Sharing Knife: Beguilement is a fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006. It is the first book in the The Sharing Knife series.
  • (Beguilements) Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. ...
  • The characteristic of being beguiled