Synonym: enticement. Similar words: adaptation, contemplation, exemption, redemption, proportional representation, tempt, attempt, contempt. Meaning: [temp'teɪʃn] n. 1. something that seduces or has the quality to seduce 2. the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid 3. the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire.
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61 Like-father-like-son was his great temptation.
62 The temptation was to pet it.
63 This provocation contains a temptation for the president.
64 Temptation to defect, 5 points.
65 There is therefore this temptation to argue against doctrine.
66 This temptation should therefore be resisted.
67 The point is repeated in several scenes of temptation.
68 And resist the temptation to give them your money.
69 This is a great temptation facing the religious believer.
70 One was the strong temptation towards explicitness and over-clarity.
71 Thou shall not give into temptation.
72 Avoid the temptation to select too much.
73 I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde
74 Gandhi did not often succumb to that temptation.
75 He put the fleeting temptation aside, surprised that it had even occurred to him.
76 In the end, he gave in to temptation, and lit his first cigarette in five days.
77 Can you stay small and resist the temptation to increase overhead?
78 He resisted the temptation, leaning back in his seat, running a hand across his forehead. Sentencedict.com
79 A further accident - stumbling over a coffer of government funds in his care - fatally scatters temptation before him.
80 Transvaal captain Jannie Breedt will resist the temptation to panic.
81 There is a temptation among school reformers to fantasize about the future of schooling.
82 The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.
83 To give into that temptation, Tucker and Hendrickson warn, would be to lose our soul.
84 The smell was unpleasant too but she resisted the temptation to remove her scented handkerchief from the cuff of her blouse.
85 Still I struggled against the temptation to go after him.
86 Resist the temptation to overburden your notes with too much information. 4.
87 When life was hard, the temptation to start drinking again was strong.
88 I finally gave in to temptation and ate a huge piece of cheesecake.
89 The church should resist the temptation to merely tick over.
90 Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt.Prayer makes it weaker. Toba Beta
More similar words: adaptation, contemplation, exemption, redemption, proportional representation, tempt, attempt, contempt, tempting, station, mutation, agitation, dictation, vegetation, stationery, imitation, gestation, incantation, denotation, annotation, quotation, contemptible, contemptuous, caveat emptor, self-contempt, connotation, deputation, reputation, salutation, sanitation.