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UK
/tˈɛmptɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈtɛmptɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛmptɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very pleasantly inviting
a tempting repast
a tantalizing aroma -
highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
an alluring prospect
the voice was low and beguiling
difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement
a tempting invitation
her alluring smile
How To Use tempting In A Sentence
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- Ministers are attempting to come up with a compromise to avoid defeat on Wednesday. Times, Sunday Times
- This blogger is a seriously insecure woman who needs to examine her shaky sense of privilege before again attempting to write about transpeople. The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office
- These were monitoring variables like humidity and temperature, information that is invaluable to the horticulturalists attempting to propagate the trees.
- After that I felt that we, the workers, needed unity and I have been attempting to unionise the place.
- For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
- To counter both this and the high levels of private label saturation, bakery and cereals manufacturers are attempting to differentiate their brands, especially in growth areas such as healthy and convenient bakery products. Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed
- Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
- By using an affirmation, you are attempting to shift yourself so that you can do or be something even though your mind doesn't accept it yet.
- Kind and tempting was the invitation to prolong my stay at the See House; enticing was the prospect offered me of a visit to a seigneurie on the Ottawa; and it was with very great reluctance that, after a sojourn of only one day, I left this abode of refinement and hospitality, and the valued friends who had received me with so much kindness, for a tedious journey to New The Englishwoman in America