intriguer
阴谋家,诱惑者,阴谋论者,吸引人
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Definitions
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in·trigued, in·tri·guing.
- : to arouse the curiosity or interest of by unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to; captivate: The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
- : to achieve or earn by appealing to another's curiosity, fancy, or interest: to intrigue one's way into another's notice.
- : to draw or capture: Her interest was intrigued by the strange symbol.
- : to accomplish or force by crafty plotting or underhand machinations.
- : Obsolete. to entangle.
- : Obsolete. to trick or cheat.
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in·trigued, in·tri·guing.
- : to plot craftily or underhandedly.
- : to carry on a secret or illicit love affair.
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- : the use of underhand machinations or deceitful stratagems.
- : such a machination or stratagem or a series of them; a plot or crafty dealing: political intrigues.
- : a secret or illicit love affair.
- : the series of complications forming the plot of a play.
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Examples
More than half of the $600,000 ransom went missing, and became the subject of nationwide intrigue.
It may also have shown Washington’s assets as a backdrop for intrigue and trench-coated rendezvous on rain-splashed streets.
The injuries and uncertainty at key positions add another element of intrigue to Sunday’s game, which has playoff implications for Washington.
Reading about and then re-creating those foods, inviting these plates filled with emotions into our own homes, bearing the love and woes and intrigue of multiple generations, across seas and land and time.
With no strong relationships or intrigue to the mystery, the story crashes and burns.
Not for nothing did Rabin label Peres in his memoirs as “an indefatigable intriguer.”
And remember, every palace intriguer may also be a double agent, ready to trade your opinions to get information in return.
Startled and horrified, Georgie had become in regard to her cousin, that born intriguer, but as clay in the hands of the potter.
Every Frenchwoman at heart is an intriguer, here again was a similarity of tastes and pursuits.
From the time that the notorious "Spanish marriages" had become facts, the Duke of Montpensier had been an intriguer.
Meantime that intriguer had been making for himself a tortuous approach to royalty.
She did not want her hero turned into an intriguer, no matter how innocent his motive.