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Tempting

//ˈtɛmp.tɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Attractive, appealing, enticing.

    "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […]."

  2. 2
    Seductive, alluring, inviting.
Adjective
  1. 1
    very pleasantly inviting wordnet
  2. 2
    highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of subjecting somebody to temptation.

    "If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of tempt form-of, gerund, participle, present

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