tempts in English

verb
1
entice or attempt to entice (someone) to do or acquire something that they find attractive but know to be wrong or not beneficial.
don't allow impatience to tempt you into overexposure and sunburn

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1. This is the tidbit which tempts his insectivorous fate.

2. Antonyms for Browbeats include lures, tempts, beguiles, coaxes, entices, flatters, maneuvers, manoeuvres, seduces and aids

3. I must say the offer of a weekend in Barcelona quite tempts me.

4. He Bedaubeth us with his own foam, and then tempts us to believe that that bedaubing comes from ourselves

5. Synonyms for Attracts include allures, charms, entices, tempts, enchants, interests, fascinates, seduces, beguiles and bewitches

6. He Bedaubeth us with his own foam, and then tempts us to believe that that bedaubing comes from ourselves

7. War on the Rocks surveys the new patterns and aims of Cyberwarfare, and the reasons it tempts so many

8. By such means, the Devil constantly tempts us with materialistic attractions that can appeal to our eyes, ears, and minds.

9. He Bedaubeth us with his own foam, and then tempts us to believe that that bedaubing comes from ourselves.33

10. 25 Nothing so tempts us to believe outright lies and unfounded stories posing as science than the sensationalistic schlock therein.

11. Like a whispering shoulder devil or a witch's familiar, this dragon, piercing through the ear lobe, tempts the wearer into acts of shameful depravity.

12. RHETORIC AND POETRY IN THE RENAISSANCE DONALD LEMEN CLARK Such a story tempts the Allegorist, and indeed the main drift of its meaning is unmistakable

13. He Bedaubeth us with his own foam, and then tempts us to believe that that bedaubing comes from ourselves—(Good News to the Vilest of Men, vol

14. The use of artificial lures to fool and catch a fish is an example of the way Lucifer often tempts, deceives, and tries to ensnare us.

15. Harbor porpoises Attracted to oil platforms when searching for food Date: March 18, 2021 Source: Aarhus University Summary: A large gathering of fish tempts harbour porpoises to …

16. This flow of money tempts some officials to steal, while others accept bribes from individuals who want them to reduce their taxes or other payments due the government.

17. ‘Once again, it proposes to Clobber the motorist.’ ‘In its content, its volume - aural and spatial - and its relentless pace, Dark Threat Clobbers the viewer with an aggression so intense it tempts laughter.’

18. Like the fly fisherman who knows that trout are driven by hunger, Lucifer knows our “hunger,” or weaknesses, and tempts us with counterfeit lures which, if taken, can cause us to be yanked from the stream of life into his unmerciful influence.

19. A new phase in the development of international law is thus being adumbrated which tempts to reconcile in law a supreme political imperative (the full independence of the nation-state) with a moral requirement (the desire to save thousands of human beings threatened with extermination).

20. Okay, now that is a Barkeep that tempts me! Nice, Runsgt! "It is wonderful, in the event of a street fight, how few bullets seem to hit the men they are aimed at." Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, Theodore Roosevelt, 1888

21. Tempts to quantify the Basicities of N7 and N3 in the neutral adenosine residue.[19,20] Unfortunately, these Basicities cannot directly be measured, be-cause the (N1)H+ unit, N1 being the most basic nitrogen atom, exerts a repulsion on the (N7)H + site, and this is even more true of the (N1)H + and (N7)H +units on the (N3)H site