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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211 Liquor is a terrible temptation to lonely men cut off from their wives, or fighting for success they can not attain.
212 He rejected the temptation to call Celia at the office.
213 The prospect of scaring off awkward media revelations will always provide a great temptation for Attorneys to bluff.
214 Despite intense pressure and great temptation, they entered no wars.
215 A man with will may rise superior to temptation.
216 He felt a reformed man , delivered from temptation.
217 I should congratulate you that you resisted the temptation.
218 The enemy alternated between coercion and temptation, yet the hero never caved.
219 There a temptation to rush, to canonize your memory. There is no need to do so.
220 Others may suggest it's the temptation of the office machine.
221 Question to Consider: What Christlike character quality can I develop by defeating the most common temptation I face?
222 The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous.
223 Countless companies seek to offer such temptation, some even offering copies gratis.
224 38Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
225 No matter how copacetic your domestic life may be, the temptation of infidelity the appeal of new things, the sexiness of breaking the rules could prove quite hard to resist.
226 The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
227 Still, the temptation to build a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) platform is there; there are IR-based remotes with decent response time, and the hardware would be an excellent match.
228 Pilgrims lapidate a stone pillar in commemoration of Abraham's temptation.
229 Both nations must avoid the temptation to close off our respective markets to trade and investment.
230 When you write a plan,[http://sentencedict.com/temptation.html] avoid the temptation to all - encompassing.
231 You should resist any such temptation. Diversity ought not to be confused with division.
232 Abashed at this question, I answered that sloth was my besetting temptation.
233 Given the fragile and unbalanced global recovery, countries should resist the temptation to engage in finger-pointing or blame shifting.
234 Blueberry sauce sweet and sour, light cheese billet melts in your mouth, with a unique sour and light lemon cheese, came from the Milky temptation to faint blue-violet, is a thinking break away.
235 He thinks the cosseted young find it difficult to cope on their own; and in this materialistic world, few can resist the temptation to trade up.
236 He stifled his temptation to take hold of Ivy and shake her.
237 In front of spiritual homeland, your any thread of falter, could let you lose precious inwardness, and place yourself in the temptation of the secular world.
238 Flora Manhood resisted the temptation to contemplate her own body.
239 She obeyed his directions very punctually; perhaps she had no temptation to transgress.
240 Abstainer: a weak person who yield to the temptation of deny himself a pleasure.
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.