tempt

IPA: tˈɛmpt

(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
(transitive) To attract; to allure.
(transitive) To provoke something; to court.

Examples of "tempt" in Sentences

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_I answer that, _ Properly speaking, to tempt is to test the person tempted.
For to tempt is to make an experiment, which is not done save in regard to something unknown.
These labels tempt children with free gifts and seduce them to be loyal consumers of a particular product.
Delays in product recalls tempt tragedyThe Los Angeles Times Mega Brands agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1.1 million last week in connection with a defective toy that caused the death of a toddler.
By "tempt" I mean "when we were in New York and taking the train out to Sunnybrook, we went by a number of stations that had X3 posters, and I was tempted to get off and steal one of the Wolvie ones and if I'd seen a Rogue one I think I might actually have done it", so while there is no earthly need for a 4x6 poster, I, er, bid on it anyway.
16 Disappointment might urge the flatterer to secret revenge; and the first glance of favor might again tempt him to suspend and suppress a libel, 17 in which the Roman Cyrus is degraded into an odious and contemptible tyrant, in which both the emperor and his consort Theodora are seriously represented as two daemons, who had assumed a human form for the destruction of mankind.