Crossword-Solution: TEMPT 5 letters, 138 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Tempt	v. t.	To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
Tempt	v. t.	To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
Tempt	v. t.	To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
Tempt	v. t.	To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

We have 138 clues for the answer “TEMPT”

Clue	Answers
Act like the serpent in Eden	1 answer
Act the Lorelei	1 answer
Act the serpent	1 answer
Appeal strongly to	1 answer
Attract one's fancy	1 answer
Attract; entice	1 answer
Be appealing	1 answer
Be inviting	1 answer
Be inviting to	1 answer
Behave like Eve's snake	1 answer
Cause cravings	1 answer
Do Circe's job	1 answer
Do as Eden's serpent did	1 answer
Do the devil's work?	1 answer
Emulate Eden's serpent	1 answer
Emulate Eden's snake	1 answer
Emulate Lorelei	1 answer
Emulate Old Scratch	1 answer
Emulate the Lorelei	1 answer
Entice to do something wrong	1 answer
Entice to what is wrong.	1 answer
Give rise to a desire	1 answer
Incline strongly.	1 answer
Make like Mephistopheles	1 answer
Make one's mouth water	1 answer
Make someone's mouth water	1 answer
Make very appealing to	1 answer
Mimic a Siren	1 answer
Offer a bad choice to	1 answer
Offer a doughnut to a dieter, say	1 answer
Offer an apple	1 answer
Offer an apple in Eden	1 answer
Offer bait	1 answer
Offer bait to	1 answer
Offer chocolates to, as a dieter	1 answer
Offer forbidden fruit to	1 answer
Offer inducement.	1 answer
Play the vamp	1 answer
Proffer bait	1 answer
Render strongly disposed	1 answer
Risk provoking fate	1 answer
Summon with a slowly curling index finger, say	1 answer
Test one's moral fiber	1 answer
Try to draw in	1 answer
Try to hook	1 answer
Try to pull	1 answer
Use bait on	1 answer
What a mouth-watering aroma can do	1 answer
What sirens may do	1 answer
Whet the appetite	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TEMPT (5)

Cease then this impious rage, And tempt not these; but hast’n to appease Th’ incensed Father, and th’ incensed Son, While Pardon may be found in time besought.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth by some device.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

What can thy silence do for him, except it tempt him—yea, compel him, as it were—to add hypocrisy to sin? Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

This Man, born and now upgrown, 140 To shew him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction, henceforth I expose To Satan; let him tempt, and now assay His utmost subtlety, because he boasts And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng Of his Apostasy.

Paradise Regained John Milton 1993

With dignified protestations of friendship, he invited Tarzan to visit him in his wild domain, where the antelope, the stag, the boar, the panther, and the lion might still be found in sufficient numbers to tempt an ardent huntsman.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with TEMPT (3)

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to fear; you can rule your world with blood and terror, that's true. But you can't win. And I know that. Weak as I am, with my imperfections and sins, even with all of my failing, I am stronger than you. I will soon have a body. And I have my agency now. I will increase in my faith and knowledge and power. I am not perfect, but I will be, and there's not a thing you can do! I wil…

Chris Stewart

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 213 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).