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Definition of intriguing
: engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating an intriguing story
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Examples of intriguing in a Sentence
Some had once contained medicines, sarsaparilla, or elixirs; others had intriguing names embossed into their glass panels: Balm of One Thousand Flowers, Indian Cholagogue, Dr. Kilmer's Kidney Cure, and Ocean Weed Heart Remedy. —Kim Wong Keltner, The Dim Sum of All Things, 2004
The Huns are intriguing not only because of their notoriously hawkish history, but also because of their place as middlemen between Mongol and Turkic ethnicity. —Victor L. Mote, Siberia, 1998
The next two phases of the Cambrian … mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals—the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion … —Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, July/August 1998
The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of “urban legends,” intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend … and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events. —Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, 1994
The offer is very intriguing.
an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists
Recent Examples of intriguing from the Web
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Gavin Bizeau, Plainfield: The 6-10 Bizeau is an intriguing prospect who can shoot it for a player with his size.
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Now, being 17 myself, the condescending conclusion that teenagers don’t read this kind of intriguing, nuanced journalism stings on its own.
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Her talent is less about extracting information from intriguing people and more attuned to leading the audience to a sense of vague unease about her subjects.
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An unlikely pair of Canadians approached him with an intriguing investment idea: a casino in Vietnam.
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His market value could be one of the more intriguing plot lines of the winter.
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Away from its famous coastline, Sardinia’s rugged interior is home to one of the world’s most intriguing architectural marvels: 7,000 mysterious stone towers known as nuraghi.
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Charles Sykes Invision/AP Gramm is the most intriguing element among the Rock Pack’s lineup.
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Along with bagging more snakes than any other sanctioned hunt — the state’s 2016 Python Challenge came in at 106 — hunters revealed some intriguing details about the art of hunting the cryptic snakes who easily vanish into marshes.
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Origin and Etymology of intriguing
see 1intrigue
INTRIGUING Defined for English Language Learners
intriguing
playDefinition of intriguing for English Language Learners
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: extremely interesting
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