Definition of Tempting

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Definition of Tempting
	Tempting of Tempt Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. Related Definitions: Adapted, Allure, Alluring, As, Attractive, Entice, Enticing, Of, Or, Seductive, Tempt, Tempting, To

Tempting Quotations

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
Jennie Churchill

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
Kurt Loder

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
Robert B. Parker

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Joseph Butler

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
David Ginola

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Meg Greenfield

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
Fay Vincent

Tempting Translations

tempting in Dutch is lekker, aanlokkelijk
tempting in French is tentant
tempting in German is verlockend, versuchend
tempting in Italian is allettante
tempting in Spanish is tentador

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