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Untempting

adjective
1.
Not tempting.  Synonym: uninviting.
2.
Not appealing to the senses.  Synonym: unattractive.





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"Untempting" Quotes from Famous Books



... tinctured his blood. His career as a pearl-shell diver has been illuminated by the discovery of pearls—big and precious. In his youth and buoyancy he gambled them away. Now that his heart is subdued and slow he still looks for pearls, and tempts coy Fortune with dramatic sincerity and most untempting things. He wants one pearl more, that he may acquire the means of travelling to his native land. Hamed of ...
— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield
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... making a glory in the forests, and its young shoots of carmine red vying with the colouring of the New England fall; and the strange lauhala hung its stiff drooping plumes, which creak in the faintest breeze; and the superb breadfruit hung its untempting fruit, and from spreading guavas we shook the ripe yellow treasures, scooping out the inside, all juicy and crimson, to make drinking cups of the rind; and there were trees that had surrendered their own lives to a conquering ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
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Words linked to "Untempting" :   unattractive, unseductive, uninviting


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