Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which beguiles or deceives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, beguiles.

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  • noun A person who beguiles

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
  • noun a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)

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Examples

  • She smiled like some devilish beguiler who had tempted me to take the first steps toward sin.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • She smiled like some devilish beguiler who had tempted me to take the first steps toward sin.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • She smiled like some devilish beguiler who had tempted me to take the first steps toward sin.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • She smiled like some devilish beguiler who had tempted me to take the first steps toward sin.

    Olivia V.C.Andrews 2011

  • And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • Make that beguiler-in-chief, Hillary…and do your homework on the Bill of Rights and Constitution as Senator Feingold has.

    Firedoglake » It’s High Time for Some Truth 2006

  • [1324] For the leader of all wickedness assumes manifold [1325] forms, beguiler of men as he is, inconsistent, and even contradicting himself, projecting one course and then following another.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • That sovereign light, we hear, is a sly beguiler, a false leader, creator of gods and myths, an envious organ of denial, and a professional instrument of deceit.

    The Evil Demiurge Gass, William H. 1968

  • It is Krishna who is the protector of the universe and its beguiler.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • "I am beginning to know it, dear Mademoiselle!" said the pitiful beguiler, slipping through the doorway on tiptoe.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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