bedazzled

[ bih-daz-uhld ]

adjective

1. forcefully impressed, especially so as to be blind to faults or shortcomings:

   He is off repeating his misinformation to yet another bedazzled audience.

2. awestruck or overwhelmed by intense light, splendor, beauty, magnificence, etc.:

   At the end of the novel I had the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and stunning work of art.

3. adorned with features that are brilliant, sparkly, splendid, etc.:

   They live in this blindingly bedazzled penthouse suite with more crystal than Buckingham Palace.

   My daughter came home wearing a sequin-bedazzled T-shirt she’d made at camp.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of bedazzle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedazzled¹

First recorded in 1765–75; bedazzle ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; bedazzle ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

And yet, behind the lurid carnival barkery of Hulk Hogan and Rudy Giuliani and BeDazzled Alina Habba and the ghoulish malevolence of Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk, perhaps the enduring message here was not the blatant “banality of evil,” or even that “the cruelty is the point,” but the ease with which the enshittification of democracy itself is the real endgame of the Trump campaign.

From Slate

“We’re a real conservative community, but there’s this whole barrage of left wingers that have come in — I mean, radicals. Radicals,” said McIntosh, a 73-year-old Presbyterian church elder who favors bedazzled, star-spangled ball caps and drives around with a “Trumplican” bumper sticker.

From Los Angeles Times

At 3:40 p.m., the four motorcyclists head to their truck to claim their bikes and don chest protectors, heavy-duty knee-high boots, knee pads and bedazzled helmets.

From Los Angeles Times

They had a bucket that was bedazzled with her name on the boat, so the fact that she was on a boat so much Season 2 and then died off a boat, I was like, “Mike, you’re so cruel. So cruel!”

From Los Angeles Times

Elton John — he of the bedazzled spectacles and dazzling spectaculars — has been “quietly” spending his summer recovering from a “severe eye infection” that has affected his vision.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• captivated
• delighted
• mesmerized