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.
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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121 There is a temptation that voluntary organisations may be tempted into offering services on the cheap.
122 There is always a temptation to blame others for your own problems.
123 They can resist temptation long enough to make decisions based on good sense.
124 This offered the temptation to Government to use section 2 to protect itself against potentially damaging disclosures.
125 In contemplating the lair of Ed and Klara Durbeck, the temptation is to gape at the sheer volume of the contents.
126 Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. Brian Tracy 
127 If, after removing temptation, you find it too distressing, then admit that you have a problem and need help.
128 The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second.
129 The higher stakes have increased the temptation to overload the inflatable speedboats(sentencedict.com), called Zodiacs.
130 There's always a strong temptation to put off the most difficult task or the least congenial subject.
131 He resisted the temptation to look under the rug and see how his prisoner was getting on.
132 It is less the revolving door that the temptation placed in the paths of hitherto ethical men and women that he criticises.
133 The temptation is to jump to conclusions without arriving at them via a review.
134 I can not urge you strongly enough to resist the temptation of trying to work with such tapes.
135 Still, it looms as a perverse temptation, and Blue must struggle with himself for some time before fighting it off.
136 But above all the setting is lovely, and is a temptation to find a picnic place.
137 Two days she had: to resist the temptation or succumb to it.
138 If such ideas were to spread,[www.Sentencedict.com] his own slaves might find them too great a temptation to resist.
139 The temptation is always to overstock, and this means that the land is asked to produce more than its true potential.
140 Having failed to persuade Mr Shankly to change his mind, Liverpool's board resisted the temptation to appoint another charismatic manager.
141 Eden was not only a historical reality, therefore, but a perpetual temptation for humankind.
142 Healthy exercise, rational recreation, better living conditions and temperance campaigns were all designed to morally arm the men against temptation.
143 The movement revealed her face as it might have been when she was young, comely and a temptation to coachmen.
144 Pushing temptation aside, he left the casino and walked into the crowded bar next door.
145 Though the temptation to turn his back was strong, it was not in Mungo's nature to run away.
146 In the face of strong temptation, Janet dashes the bottle to the floor and rushes to Paddington to see Tryan.
147 No temptation Thus, persistent gambling or the squandering of large sums of money upon it has been regarded as a sin.
148 So the temptation to use them, which can best be resisted by the media group, is great.
149 The overwhelming temptation and the external pressures will inevitably lead the other way; to take a quick decision and move on.
150 But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity.
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.