Tempting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPTING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of tempting
ADJECTIVE:
• attractive
• appealing to or attracting someone, even if wrong or unwise
• attractive or inviting
• Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.
• highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
• very pleasantly inviting
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to entice to commit an unwise or immoral act

Words related to TEMPTING

tempt9 tempted12 temptingly18 temptingness17 temptingnesses19 temptings14 tempts10

Words that contain TEMPTING

temptings14 attempting15 temptingly18 reattempting17 temptingness17 temptingnesses19

How to use TEMPTING in a sentence

• In the Book of Wisdom, God created man spotless, and the Devil tempting him occasioned the Fall.
• This was opposed to all their notions of war, neither honour nor advantage tempting them to adopt it.
• A month passed by without news from his relative, and meantime Sham Babu received a tempting offer of employment.
• A fountain of ice-cold water gushed into a stone trough at the door, making a tempting spot for our breakfast, but we were bent on reaching the tombs.
• The chickens were certainly tempting, but still there were at least two men in the house, so perhaps it would be wiser for me, since I had no arms, to keep away from it.
• At first he thought of kicking Leather, a feat that his suppliant position made extremely convenient, if not tempting.
• But such an Eden is not tempting to me, nor, as I think, to you.
• The aroma of coffee and the smell of frying bacon stimulated appetites that needed no tempting.
• The war with Spain was now in progress, and the richly laden vessel from South America and the West Indies offered tempting prizes to English bravery.
• The bait proved too tempting for the French generals.
• West, without shadow of turning, although Barbara had tried her hand, just for fun, at tempting him to turn.
• Therefore they bit at the curious-looking metallic thing with the tempting food upon it which was suddenly dropped from somewhere.
• Now, the leading idea of this device is involved in a tempting obscurity, which leads one, at first sight, into different lines of conjecture.
• Her eyes looked directly up into mine, and whether they were the eyes of an angel or of a tempting fiend I could not tell.
• Billy McKay stood directly facing the opening, as if for the purpose of tempting one of those desperate men in there to take a shot at him.
• The foot of the coffin was just visible in the midst of the paper decorations and in front of it were set half a dozen dishes of tempting food.
• It serves both as pantry and buffet, and was full of things tempting to a young palate.
• Smiling thoughtfully, he reached toward the nearest orange, as if to take the tempting fruit in his hand.
• How he longed to touch it! How tempting the rounded curve of the small wrist.
• Yet nothing is more certain than that, to the very last, he was ever discovering, and successfully resisting, the deceitful tendencies of his own heart and a tempting devil.
• There was not anything very tempting to him as he passed through the land of Labor, and it seemed a long and weary way from the beginning to the end of it.
• He was so loth to be away from Jerrie when it was not absolutely necessary, that even a call upon Maude without her did not seem very tempting.
• A tempting spirit had found its way into their Paradise, burning with a fierce desire to mar its beauty.

Similar words containing TEMPT without suffix ing

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