tempt

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" There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.

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Quick take

dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"

verb

provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

verb

give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tempt.

verb

dispose or incline or entice to; "We were tempted by the delicious-looking food"

verb

provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

verb

give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers"

verb

induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money"

verb

try to seduce

verb

try presumptuously; "St. Anthony was tempted in the desert"

Example sentences

" There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you.

A slight aside, but I'm seeing a lot of comments about how the cash isn't really enough to tempt people.

Don't tempt me, my brother in law lives in Murfreesboro and it's absolutely gorgeous down there.

But genuine support for a first-class computing experience is one of the few things that would tempt me back onto those platforms.

This graph might tempt you to believe lower IQ implies higher religiosity.

* Offering an enormous sum to one person may tempt others to fish out offers from other companies.

Many early adopters of Bitcoin find themselves sitting on small fortunes, and Mr Johnson hopes to tempt them to diversify into real estate.

I was there in that job market, and there was a constant problem of recruiters cold-calling people by randomly dialing company numbers and trying to tempt them with higher salaries.

It was so obviously a "bubble buy" that even before things started to get bad, it was visible from a mile away that he was making a bad decision: He was buying a new construction K. Hov. cookie-cutter apartment in Edgewater, NJ, which was just close enough to Manhattan to tempt those "I'm buying a NYC apartment!

"Screw all theories of moral relativism; I can tell whether you're a good person or not by knowing how much money it would take to tempt you to leave an entire planeload of people sitting on the tarmac for an extra ten minutes.

I've long held the theory that Dropbox's long-term secret plan is to host apps - as they already have the data, this will effectively make them the fabled "internet OS".Having Guido on board to make python its systems language makes sense - and would be enough to tempt him away from google.