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Synonyms for tempting

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Synonyms for tempting

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Synonyms for tempting

highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

very pleasantly inviting

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I can't see that happening so it's the 5/6 for me, although some are being tempted by a win and a draw (four points) at a tempting 9/4.
And cold, dark nights don't exactly help on the road to fitness when it is so much more tempting to stay in the warm.
Speaking in an interview before his Anfield gig last weekend Sir Paul said: "I don't do much production now but it might be very tempting. I'm not sure they would want me."
A psycho killer's bizarre inner ramblings and inexplicable violence make it tempting to stop reading after only a few pages.
Though it is tempting (too tempting for some) to point to this year's weather as exceptional, meteorologist Jeff Masters, founder of the weather geek site Weatherunderground.com, points out in his blog that there is precedent for this year's weather.
I always try to keep in mind how tempting such a sermon is to preach, and no matter how meaningful it may be to the people, it is not "gospel," it is not "good news," if it is only about us and what we are doing.
While it is tempting for many of us to try to get people to change their behaviors by pressuring them to do so--threatening them, criticizing them, etc.--this approach is typically unsuccessful in the long run.
Once you've discovered a useful decoding device for consuming media--and there is little doubt that employees of the mainstream media generally swing left--it's tempting to chalk up every nominally anti-Republican story as the result or even direct intention of media bias.
In the heat, it may be tempting to jump in the shower and let ice cold water beat down on you.
One tempting option that has emerged is value-price reconditioned or re-certified tape media, particularly with DLTtape and Super DLTtape products.
The Queen bred and raced the colt's dam Tempting Prospect, a useful
"Arts grants can be very tempting to legislators," commented George Urban, director of Advocacy for Artserve Michigan, a nonprofit agency that supports the arts, in an article in the Detroit Free Press about a proposal to cut $307,000 from the state's allocation for arts support.
Does it matter if Brussels takes even more control over the financial and trading systems, tempting imitation by governments in other areas of the world?
Add this to an insurance group rating of just 2, and the Arosa makes a truly tempting package.