Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Alluring; attracting; charming. Formerly also
inticing .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That entices; alluring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
entices ;alluring ;attracting ;charming . - verb Present participle of
entice . - noun
enticement ;temptation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire
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Examples
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It also explains the importance of the photo and profile background creation, which is surprisingly powerful in enticing people to follow you.
What You Can Learn From "All A Twitter" by Tee Morris | The Creative Penn 2009
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Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies.
Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland Tim Webb 2010
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And hearing about Marvel's desire to turn it into something with lots of action, although enticing, is much more troublesome than anything Norton has tried to do.
Edward Norton Finally Speaks on The Incredible Hulk 'Feud' « FirstShowing.net 2008
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In a belated response to the success of online booksellers in enticing customers to Web sites such as Amazon, two publishers have launched features that allow customers to browse through books online.
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And even more enticing is my discovery that he also wrote a lot of plays, all fueled by his lovely skewed perspectives on death and societal mishaps like love and hope.
Archive 2003-08-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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And even more enticing is my discovery that he also wrote a lot of plays, all fueled by his lovely skewed perspectives on death and societal mishaps like love and hope.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Though all about her called the enticing voices of night and the river, yet she listened for the tried counsel voices of the plain Panama streets and the busy office.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual - "they shall neither marry nor give into marriage" (Matthew 22: 30) and not necessarily "enticing" - some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic.
Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009
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Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual - "they shall neither marry nor give into marriage" (Matthew 22: 30) and not necessarily "enticing" - some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic.
Pajamas Media 2009
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Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual - "they shall neither marry nor give into marriage" (Matthew 22: 30) and not necessarily "enticing" - some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic.
Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly. 2009
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