temptable

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temptable
Adjective
  • That included former interim U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, who wrote in her resignation letter that Adams had entered into a corrupt quid pro quo with Trump to get rid of his case by offering immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
  • He has been banned for life from the city of Bonita Springs, having once sunk a corrupt city councilman’s party barge, but shows little remorse.
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Freshwater Challenge is an initiative of countries—currently 49 countries plus the European Union—that have committed to collectively restoring 300,000 kilometers of degraded rivers and 350 million hectares of degraded wetlands.
    Jeff Opperman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The resulting service gaps leave service providers relying on alternate methods that in many places result in a degraded customer interaction.
    Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In an era that looked as if it might be defined by an American man of depraved cruelty, corruption, and shame, what a magnificent thing the Catholic Church has done.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
  • Body counts on the screen like some depraved sports scorecard.
    Stan Godlewski, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • What Lawrence achieves here is extremely impressive, a marquee movie star throwing herself with abandon into a filmmaker’s warped and demandingly miserable vision.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
  • The Eiffel Tower is warped and displaced, the Arc de Triomphe hewn in twain.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But, even at its most perverted, Shadow of the Erdtree handles motherhood like nuclear energy.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Adjective
  • Will the company itself go rogue and opt to use AGI for evil deeds?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • In an incisive observation of the way that an adult’s words can sometimes settle on a child with unusual weight, I-Jing absorbs this folk superstition without question, and begins to shoplift gaudy trinkets from surrounding market stalls, only ever using her evil left hand.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • In a guest role that’s been extremely well hidden in the months leading up to the premiere, Bradley Cooper turns heel as Elijah Gemstone, a degenerate con man who sees right through Abel Grieves’s lucrative scam before plugging him in the forehead.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In theory, the walls of carbon nanotubes house a sea of degenerate electrons that have a similar density to metals.
    The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The sinful acts on display here are a direct result of that disenfranchisement, an effort to reclaim what is still owed, forty acres and a mule, with interest.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Pope Gregory, believing these demons to be an indication of Magdalene’s excessively sinful past, identified her as an unnamed woman in Luke who wipes Jesus’ feet with her hair.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Temptable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temptable. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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