tempt
verb (used with object)
to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
untempted
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a word derived from
tempt.
Example Sentences
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Similarly untempted by the secular market, King retired to raise her 15 children.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2023
"Thus richer than untempted kings are we," writes Lovelace in his poem in praise of the grasshopper, "That, asking nothing, nothing need."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2010
"It's a great pity all of our sex didn't realise it; but then it would make the untempted more morally righteous than ever," declared Lady Ludlow.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte
His fundamental conception of the world was essentially mediaeval, his ideal was that of cloistered innocence or, still better, the innocence of untempted and untried infancy.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
You are a better woman to-day than many who will die untempted.
From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
