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Webster 1828 Edition
Intriguing
INTRIGUING
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1.
Addicted to intrigue; given to secret machinations.Definition 2024
intriguing
intriguing
English
Adjective
intriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)
- Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.
- (archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)
- […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.
- 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)
Synonyms
Translations
causing a desire to know more
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Verb
intriguing
- present participle of intrigue
Noun
intriguing (plural intriguings)
- (dated) An intrigue.
- Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
- In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
- Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck