Tempting
['tem(p)tɪŋ] or ['tɛmptɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tempt
(a.) Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.
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Examples
- You will allow me the pleasure of bringing you some fruit again, if I should see any that is tempting. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When they came out through the French window, there was the pond with one tempting little hole in the ice, right in front of their noses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, yes; the terms, in every sense, are tempting enough, I replied impatiently. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They are not a tempting subject. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It's too tempting--I'll take the risk, she declared. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You spare, thin men are always tempting and always cheating Death! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Pickwick could not resist so tempting an opportunity of studying human nature. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Where was the use of tempting such a catastrophe? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I could fell yo' to the ground for tempting me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They show you only the green, tempting surface of the marsh, and give not one faithful or truthful hint of the slough underneath. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To herself, individually, it was most tempting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mr. Pickwick found that his three companions had risen, and were waiting his arrival to commence breakfast, which was ready laid in tempting display. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You are tempting me with a new prospect, when all my other prospects are closed before me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Large dusky forms with sly and jeering faces crouched in the corners of the room, and bent over my bed at night, tempting me to madness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It's the way to make any trumpery tempting, to ticket it at a high price in that way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ah, yes, I remember--you do look so pretty, and so tempting, and so, so--oh Lord. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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