Alluring
[ə'l(j)ʊərɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; 'an alluring prospect'; 'her alluring smile'; 'the voice was low and beguiling'; 'difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement'; 'a tempting invitation' .
Typist: Ronald--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allure
(a.) That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.
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Examples
- How alluring the world outside the cage appeared to Lily, as she heard its door clang on her! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your's, more horrid from its very resemblance. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- To one of Edison's enthusiastic self-confidence the long vista of difficulties ahead--we say it in all sincerity--must have been alluring. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Have I then been thrown on the alluring coast of fatal Circe? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But on quitting Bulstrode after that conversation, a very alluring idea occurred to him about this said letting of Stone Court. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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