0 to make someone want to have or do something, especially something that they do not need or something that is wrong -- kusić, wabić
I'm tempted not to go to my next class.
[ + to do sth ] She's trying to tempt me to go shopping with her.
Although one may be tempted to follow the colonial accounts and see these as generalized, unvaried forms of action, more historical specificity may be hypothesized.
Accepting such a view without further inquiry was tempting.
In this situation, protesters were tempted to look at other examples.
In the light of our results, it is tempting to conclude that mandible size is the trait of key importance in interspecific larval combat.
One is tempted to ask: but is this necessarily so?
A weakening of environmental policy may become tempting if more favourable instruments (such as tariffs or subsidies) are constrained by the treaty.
As a consequence, either the architecture is tempted by the ambition of becoming a work of art, or falls directly into anarchy.
At most, we may be tempted to infer the existence of'gateway communities' on the boundaries of our region.
