temptuous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From tempt + -uous.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more temptuous (comparative)
most temptuous (superlative)