Intriguing
['ɪntriːgɪŋ;ɪn'triːgɪŋ] or [ɪn'triɡɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) capable of arousing interest or curiosity; 'our team came up with some most intriguing finds' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intrigue
Checker: Uriah
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Cunning, crafty, artful, sly, wily, astute, subtle, insidious, designing, arch, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, politic, foxy, snaky, Machiavelian.
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Examples
- The baseness of communing and intriguing with the fellow who would have set that stain upon her, and upon her brother too, was attained. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All the journalists should be shot as well as most of the people in this room and certainly the intriguing German unmentionable of a Richard. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I have been intriguing, since I came to Paris, with almost every Frenchwoman I could find. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Why don't you take to intriguing with women of fashion? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The intriguing Palli, the accomplished Karazza, the warlike Ypsilanti, were among the principal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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