Synonyms for tempted
tempt·ed

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1. List of paraphrases for "tempted":

   attempted, inclined, tried

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1. Isadora Duncan:

   Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

2. Warren Littlefield:

   We offered Jerry Seinfeld $ 5 million an episode, we went in there with a staggering sum and there was tremendous confidence that no one could walk away from it. Jerry Seinfeld came to me and said, ‘ I don’t have a life, I ’m not married, I don’t have kids. ’ We gave it everything we had, Jerry Seinfeld was tempted, but in the end it was a quality of life decision.

3. J. Hawes:

   He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

4. Daniel McGown:

   If Thomas Gaffney had reached Thomas Gaffney hand towards a pocket or something where I thought that Thomas Gaffney might have had one of the guns that went away last night or the night before, then I might have been tempted to do that.

5. Bruce Barton:

   Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.