Synonym: alluring, beguiling, enticing, tantalising, tantalizing. Similar words: contemptible, tempt, attempt, contempt, exemption, redemption, preemptive, self-contempt. Meaning: ['temptɪŋ] adj. 1. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire 2. very pleasantly inviting.
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61, Tempting, he thought. Plunge in and head for the fire tower.
62, It is tempting, but completely illegitimate, to slide from analysis of the production of official solutions to their implementation.
63, It is tempting to see here an iconoclastic attitude towards male-female roles.
64, Contained in the pages of the book are tempting recipes from around the world.
65, Although it was very tempting, accepting it would be the kiss of death for the concept.
66, By building houses in the steep canyons, Californians are tempting fate in the form of mudslides and fires.
67, Overhead, tempting us with its promise of warmth, the sun glints mischievously along the summit cornice.
68, It is tempting always to produce all the information that can be extracted by a particular statistical technique.
69, It may be tempting to break the silence, but you can only do that by being more dogmatic or by compromising.
70, The climbing predator is in no position to start chasing after the cackling parent bird, nomatterhow tempting it may be.
71, It was tempting fate to run the new car in public-but McLaren had thought of that.
72, The barbels are long and are very tempting to other fish, which may pick at them, damaging the ends.
73, It was tempting to see its potential as another fun palace or shopping centre or - this being Liverpool - housing estate.
74, It was tempting to ask, in view of his once held political ambitions,(http://sentencedict.com/tempting.html) whether he had ever regretted staying in business.
75, Or, still more tempting, to send an electric shock interactively to senders of the more offensive messages?
76, Tempting little offshore islands, washed by warm blue seas - it seemed almost too good to be true!
77, It would be tempting fate to travel without a spare wheel.
78, Moreover, it is tempting to translate them directly into human social and political affairs.
79, It is tempting for leaders to confuse the popular will with the voices of those who shout the loudest.
80, Voters, in fact, are not clamoring for big tax cuts, tempting as they may be.
81, It's tempting to wonder what he'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work; mellowed out or gobsmacked?
82, It is tempting for any regime to claim that its very survival proves that it has consent and support.
83, It is tempting to underestimate the scale and radical nature of changes occurring around us(sentencedict.com), socially or geographically.
84, The industrial use of oil, 3. 4in, constitutes an even more tempting alternative fuels target.
85, Appetisers Serve these tempting snacks with a glass or two of your favourite festive fizz.
86, It was very tempting, but it would be stupid to go across now, until I knew more about the tides.
87, It is tempting, then, to call time on G8 summits.
88, In presidential politics, numbers like these are extremely tempting, particularly in a close election.
89, Tempting as it is to criticise them back, this will make them even more defensive.
90, It's always tempting when visiting an aquatic outlet to buy on impulse.
More similar words: contemptible, tempt, attempt, contempt, exemption, redemption, preemptive, self-contempt, contemptuous, caveat emptor, contemptuously, captivating, empty, exempt, preempt, pre-empt, gumption, temper, bumptious, exempt from, tempera, temple, assumption, peremptorily, tempest, tempura, consumption, presumption, temporal, extempore.