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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

The Houyhnhnms, beings endowed with reason, but undisturbed and untempted by the passions or struggles of earthly existence, are not brutes, and are not to be compared with men.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

The crowd through which these melancholy jesters pass, regards them with a pensive scorn, and goes about its business untempted by the delights of carnival.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

They don't ever understand, these easy, half-alive, untempted folks!

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora