temptation
tem tay shuhn
- n something that seduces or has the quality to seduce
- n the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid
he felt the temptation and his will power weakened - n the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire
- In March the Vatican updated the traditional seven deadly sins with seven new social sins, to bring the list into line with the temptations of the modern world.
- Greene suggests that in some circumstances, real honesty is not about overcoming the temptation to lie but about not having to deal with that temptation in the first place.
- Joe Klein on Howard Dean and the populist temptation.