Beguile in a sentence as a verb

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile

To “set one’s cap” meant to “deceive, beguile, or cheat.” This connotation, if not denotation, of cap also occurs in the slang usages of bonnet.

President Lincoln said it best:"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

And within that mix of confusion, add to that the already comedic/tragic stupid human tricks that continue to beguile so many.

Graham has done a good job of pitching the idea that this is because people can't understand the obvious genius of Lisp, and I'll admit, as a Lisper, that that story once beguiled me.

This was decided on high up per some undisclosed calculus like everything else substantial while the corporate media beguiles "Us" with peripheral, low brow, histrionics.

Renaissance humanists tended to care more about Greek grammar than about mining technology and windmills, so they created this narrative of medieval backwardness that we're still beguiled by.

In the US, car dealers have a pretty poor reputation, because people generally believe that the salespeople are especially trained to trick/beguile/confuse shoppers, in order to maximize the dealers profit.

" 1914 translation by H. Rackham"On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain.

They will be jobs making every kind of frippery and unnecessary contraption, and one will also at the same time have to beguile the public into feeling that they need and want these completely unnecessary things that aren't even beautiful.

> Übermenschen – machine-men, aerialists and space-bound conquistadors – tantalised philosophers and beguiled fascistsArticles like this seem to take advantage of the misunderstanding of Nietzsche without directly endorsing it.

Beguile definitions

verb

influence by slyness

See also: juggle hoodwink

verb

attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts"