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When Gwyneth Paltrow, whose nutritional qualification is nothing more than a lifetime of eating, launched goop.com in 2008, promoting such untempting sounding propositions as the “21-day elimination diet”, she was roundly mocked.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2015

Elizabeth and Victoria are the girls' names favoured by the bookies, each at 5-1; Diana is surprisingly short at 9-1; Britney an untempting 500-1.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2012

An untempting offer in an endlessly-referenced scene from The Shining.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2010

Miami was a thought, "because it's so infinitely sordid and untempting."

From Time Magazine Archive

But this detestable mother of a lovable daughter and an untempting granddaughter is destined to become still more detestable in the eyes of the Julius Bradshaws before she exhausts her topic.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend