Tempts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• TEMPT, 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

Words related to TEMPTS

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Words that contain TEMPTS

attempts12 contempts15 reattempts14

How to use TEMPTS in a sentence

• Perhaps love of adventure tempts them, perhaps love of money, or a fine spirit of service, but whatever the propelling motive, we are seeing them make the venture.
• In his refusal we see much heroism, a little obstinacy, and perhaps something of that desire for martyrdom which tempts every spiritual leader.
• A description tempts us, but perhaps its best description is to be found in its effect upon Dr.
• She has a laugh that it is a pleasure to hear, and a quick blush which tempts to mischief.
• When a boy gets on his good behavior he tempts Providence.
• A windy Sunday in London before the lamps are lit, tempts a man to believe in the nobility of work.
• And this accursed inheritance tempts men ever to long for and hope for that which they have not earned.
• James has executed his task almost tempts us to travel with the reader, page by page, through the volume.
• Nothing tempts a young man more than to play the part of a good genius to a woman.
• No hope of better things tempts me to long for life.
• I am sorry to cast a cloud over so pleasant a vision, but your little book of QUERIES tempts me to throw in a doubt.
• That particular devil who tempts men to their dishonour contrived that the business should be made fatally easy for me.
• There is some subtle attraction in a Catherine of Russia or a Manon Lescaut which tempts the cunning lust of men to cry their praise for the nobility of heart that lies beneath.
• To criticize the drifting girl, even though she sorely tempts one to criticism of her, is not enough.
• A man of full growth ought to know that nothing on earth tempts Providence so much as the binding of a young woman against her will.
• In all it is Grania who tempts Diarmid to take her away from Finn on the eve of her wedding to the old king.
• The romantic end he foresaw as the destiny of man was calculated to flatter the yearning which tempts blameless imaginations to give themselves up to beliefs.
• Second, the fact that a theological or pre-theological student can secure aid in pursuing his education tempts many young men into the ministry.
• If it be an evil thought, he generally regards it as the suggestion of a tempting demon, whereas in truth he tempts himself.
• It sees, tho not quite clearly, that such action makes an unstable equilibrium of wages which tempts to constant friction and discord with employers and with unorganized laborers.
• So, by means of his gold, Sanballat tempts some of the Jerusalem Jews over to his side.
• The days are bright, warm, and clear, and every hour tempts me forth to wander about the hills.
• Accumulations of wealth in market centers tempts the ambitious and the adventurous to enter the rat-race and grab more than their pro-rata share of the honey.
• We shall see! Just so a groom, with the bridle behind him, Tempts a free horse with some corn in a sieve.
• It is in this secondary sense that James denies that God tempts any man.
• Besides, the path which looks attractive, and tempts to the indulgence of many appetites and habits which a Christian man must rigidly subdue, does not continue so attractive.
• When a trader wants slaves, he applies to a chief for them, and tempts him with his wares.

Similar words containing TEMPT without suffix s

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