temptuous

English

Etymology

From tempt +‎ -uous.

Adjective

temptuous (comparative more temptuous, superlative most temptuous)

1. eliciting temptation; tempting
   • 2009, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson, Subversive Silences:

     If only you had pulled on the thread of my wool, if you had undone my fabric, mesh by mesh . . . entangled in each one was a temptuous thought and a name I will not forget.

   • 2011, John McCraw, Chateau Pacific, page 281:

     When she heard the camera and motor drive clicking and whirring away behind her, she peered at me over her shoulder, arched her back, and started teasing me by shaking her ass in my direction. Suzan caught on to what was happening, and the next thing I knew, both of them were trying to out perform each other in a temptuous and hilarious T&A shake-a-thon.

   • 2013, Francesca T. Royster, Sounding Like a No-No:

     Kitt is both playing the wily temptress who lures Handy into the world of pleasure—and soulful musical creation—and playing herself, the temptuous Eartha Kitt, making her way into the hearts and heatedup imaginations of white and black theatergoers all over the country.

Synonyms

• temptful
• temptsome