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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

Our friends observed fruits, raspberries, strawberries, and peaches, though of an untempting appearance and very dear; and also cakes of various forms, bread, beer, and of course quass.

From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by Landells, R. T.