Tempt is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to entice to commit an unwise or immoral act
• entice or try to entice (someone) to do something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or unwise
• have an urge or inclination to do something
• persuade (someone) to do something
• risk provoking (a deity or abstract force), usually with undesirable consequences
• entice (a person) to do something wrong
• To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
• To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
• To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
• To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
• dispose or incline or entice to
• provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
• give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting
• induce into action by using one\'s charm
• try to seduce
• try presumptuously

Words related to TEMPT

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Words that contain TEMPT

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How to use TEMPT in a sentence

• Whatsoever thoughts or feelings tempt us to pride and self-conceit are of the devil, not of God.
• SIXTH VOYAGE It must be a marvel to you how, after having five times met with shipwreck and unheard-of perils, I could again tempt fortune and risk fresh trouble.
• But that takes us too far afield, and would tempt us to further excursions in Burmah and China.
• Because thou hast kept the words of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which will come upon all the world, to tempt them that dwell upon the earth.
• Then how he begins to tempt God, by asking him again, in hopes that God may have changed his mind.
• She was looking very beautiful and bold, seeking to tempt him and carry him off from that silly little cousin of hers, whose tears would simply have made her laugh.
• Well, say I have her tongue, had I not need, When you have both her eyes, nay, all her shape, Able to tempt even Job himself to rape? MAT.
• An opportunity for a splendid confirmation of his universal supremacy in the Christian world came to tempt him.
• No flowers, no little contrivances for amusement, no delicate article of food to tempt his sickly appetite.
• To tempt the sea in a frail boat was certain destruction.
• I had written to him on my way thither to announce my coming, and to say how happy it would make me could I tempt him to accompany me as far as Rome.
• It must be some far greater and deeper movement that will first tempt the unchanging Eastern Church to approve of any deviation from the trodden path of immemorial tradition.
• She ignored every effort Kut-le made to tempt her to eat.
• Merchants, clergymen, women, professional men, clerks, come here to tempt fortune.
• For to tempt is to make an experiment, which is not done save in regard to something unknown.
• He was a man of small property, living simply and plainly, without extravagant habits or anything which would have been likely to tempt him to such crime.
• Naught was in me to tempt your feet To seek a lodging.
• The fortress-capital could no longer shelter or tempt the Egyptian foes of the Babylonian empire.
• If I went away some one else might come into the room and possibly steal the jewels, for they were lying in plain sight and were valuable enough to tempt a weak-willed person.
• The method of time-payment does not directly tempt the workman to slight the quality of his work by haste.
• His art, however little it may tempt us to the use of the term realism, is nevertheless based on an almost passionate sympathy with actual human nature.
• Tempt you to be of two minds, to turn aside, to turn back.
• For those who leave intended murder behind them, it is an impious insolence to tempt the abyss.
• Nothing would tempt me to meet Graydon Muir and the curious stare of the people.
• It is not good to tempt the Lord by parlying too much and too readily with Satan.
• Let, oh world, all, let me be! Tempt me not with gifts of pleasure.
• However I had patience with you, and only tried to tempt your appetite by the choicest dishes I could invent, but all to no purpose.
• You are a man, an honest man, an honorable man, who will not wrong your friend, or tempt the woman that cannot love you without sin.
• But oh, the temptation! Well, then, how wrong of him to tempt her! She must not go.
• Nor will any of these directions be on the whole good, or tempt a well-trained will, if it leads to estrangement from all other interests.
• However, I think it answered so far as to tempt one to go again.

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