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adj. Alluring by guile; deluding; misleading; diverting.
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adj. misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods
adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
Word Usage
"Slightly more beguiling is the debate format, where representatives of contrasting positions do battle, and leave it to the reader to decide — with the implicaiton that the reader is now somehow in a position to do so."