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Synonyms & Antonyms of beguiling
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- a smart and beguiling child who can manipulate her parents with alarming ease
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- crooked,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- fraudulent,
- insinuating,
- knavish,
- Machiavellian,
- oblique,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- treacherous,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unscrupulous
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- the beguiling allure of a life of crime
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- artful,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- devious,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- shady,
- shifty,
- slick,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- wily
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beguiling
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of beguiling (Entry 2 of 2)
- the magician effortlessly beguiled and amazed the children
Synonyms for beguiling
- alluring,
- bewitching,
- captivating,
- charming,
- enchanting,
- fascinating,
- killing,
- magnetizing,
- wiling,
- witching
- [archaic]
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- beguiled her into believing that yet another worthless item would enhance her life
Synonyms for beguiling
- 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
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- was beguiled by the promise of easy money as a drug dealer
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“Beguiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beguiling. Accessed 19 May. 2022.
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The first known use of beguiling was in 1646
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