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Another word for temptation

Noun

  1. Something that attracts, especially with the promise of pleasure or reward

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Sentence Examples

  • I've been able to push temptation away.

  • As they now knew that they could find protection without looking to a superior, they had less temptation to give up their independence, and many of them settled in the towns where they could be safe and free.

  • She turned away from the temptation and went to her room.

  • His greatest temptation was the study of the literature of pagan Rome.

  • She placed them in a chair, resisting all temptation to look at them until every child had received his gifts.

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