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
Willinawaugh had already refused a new rifle and a horse—and then two horses besides, and, still untempted, shook his head.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
But as we saw in our first chapter when considering the terms of this warfare, the captivity that such untempted souls are enduring is no idle, passive confinement in some spiritual prison.
From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Shirley C. Hughson
Even with respect to the two vices he denounced, he was an untried and untempted man.
From Rulers of India: Lord Clive by George Bruce Malleson
