Crossword clues for intriguing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intrigue \In*trigue"\ ([i^]n*tr[=e]g"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intrigued (-tr[=e]gd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Intriguing.] [F. intriguer, OF. intriquer, entriquer; cf. It. intrigare. See Intricate, Extricate.]
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Wiktionary
cause a desire to know more; mysterious. n. (cx dated English) An intrigue. v
(present participle of intrigue English)
WordNet
adj. disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile" [syn: challenging]
capable of arousing interest or curiosity; "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"
Usage examples of "intriguing".
From time spent with Jones, Adams decided he was the most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American navy.
He had so far found only a few references in old books that talked about the Valley of the Lost, and the Baka Ban Mana, but what he found was intriguing.
He had taught physics at a Bloomington, Indiana, high school for twenty years, he said, and the beanstalk had been intriguing him the entire time we had been riding it.
Even more intriguing, the vehicle blocking his view was an American Red Cross Bloodmobile, and two volunteers were unfurling a banner that read give the gift of life--blood drive today.
Spectroscopy revealed that the surface water was full of intriguing molecular debris, but guessing the relationship of any of it to the living carpets was like trying to reconstruct flesher biochemistry by studying their ashes.
Anyway, I chose Chernovtsy as the most charming and intriguing variant of small motherlands.
For one thing, she would have to stop viewing Flint Cottrell as an annoying, intriguing, unsettling male to whom she was attracted.
Instead she lowered her gaze, absorbing every detail of his chest, as though he were an infinitely intriguing tapestry of dark curls and sleek muscle.
She kept her gaze pinned on his face, fighting to ignore the smooth expanse of his shoulders, and those intriguing black curls that started just below the hollow of his neck.
It was the people more than the buildings that Dolley found intriguing.
Caught up with this intriguing thought, Jeffrey went to the other room to retrieve his Dopp Kit.
He may have brought back to Paris some intriguing lexicological novelty which was all the rage in Rome that season.
Ambiorix was intriguing in the councils of the Nervii to see what damage he could do en route to his parley with the Treveri.
To date there are intriguing hints in theoretical studies that strings may have further substructure, but there is as yet no definitive evidence.
All human offences, the whole system of dishonesty, evasion, circumventing, forbidden indulgence, and intriguing ambition, in which men are struggling with each other, will be looked upon by a thoughtful Mason, not merely as a scene of mean toils and strifes, but as the solemn conflicts of immortal minds, for ends vast and momentous as their own being.