intriguing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   “As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.”

2. sıfat Involving oneself in secret plots or schemes.

   “A book that does not sell us the powerful, intriguing women of Rome simply as poisoners, schemers, and femmes fatales […]”

3. sıfat Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.

   “[…] 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.”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of intrigue
5. isim An intrigue.

   “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.”