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  • verb Present participle of unbeguile.
  • adjective Not beguiling.

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Examples

  • Once we've registered the unbeguiling notion that a boy has been born with an iron for a head, the story has little to offer.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • And it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon, not the authority of his office as such.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon, not the authority of his office as such.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?)

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • You say "it was his cogency and the coherence, transparency and unbeguiling quality of his reasoning that was relied upon" ( "beguiling" or "unbeguiling"?)

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But, the single most alluring quality of this candidate is his unbeguiling, forthright, honesty.

    Michael Badnarik; The Libertarian Candidate for President 2004

  • "Weekend Update" is now helmed by head writer Seth Meyers who leads the update desk alone and seems to do so in a lackluster and unbeguiling manner that leaves little to no laughter resounding in my household.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lisa Steinberg 2012

  • One moment you are driving through post-industrial West Lothian, an unbeguiling land of new towns, ring roads, shale bings and science parks.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • One moment you are driving through post-industrial West Lothian, an unbeguiling land of new towns, ring roads, shale bings and science parks.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • It lends a consistently cogent, coherent and unbeguiling quality to some of the most important issues of our day, our era; it lends depth and scope in areas that are too often rendered in a surface level manner or even in a mendacious and malevolent manner, often enough by the status quo within the MSM (whether naively or otherwise is difficult to say at times); this blog consistently enjoins discussions on a level that reflects a comprehension and empathy for a variety of other views, without losing focus upon a better sense of proportion and prioritization and scale; it also reflects an appreciation of the balance within the idealism/realism nexus and divide, a particularly critical juncture any time, but especially so during a time that is largely defined by poorly rooted ideological enthusiasms, some of which reach religious and quasi-religious levels of enthusiasm and dogmatism or unreflective certitude.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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