beguiled
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This was almost hilariously tawdry, but MI5 was beguiled by Lyalin’s many disclosures about KGB operatives in London, made as a way to prove that he was not faking his defection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Monkey’s capture comes about by his being believably beguiled by the sound of the lute-like pipa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
When people suggest that California is not really America, we might wonder whether they have been beguiled by some mythic vision of America.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Their 8-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, beguiled onlookers in an ivory silk crepe dress by the designer Alexander McQueen — a miniature version of the dress worn by her mother.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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