TEMPTINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temptingly mean? 

• TEMPTINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb TEMPTINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a tempting seductive manner

  Familiarity information: TEMPTINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPTINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a tempting seductive manner

Synonyms:

seductively; temptingly

Context example:

she smiled at him seductively

Pertainym:

tempting (highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire)

 Context examples 

She was tired of care and confinement, longed for change, and thoughts of her father blended temptingly with the novel charms of camps and hospitals, liberty and fun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Rushworth submitted; and the question of surveying the grounds, with the who and the how, was likely to be more fully agitated, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to arrange by what junction of carriages and horses most could be done, when the young people, meeting with an outward door, temptingly open on a flight of steps which led immediately to turf and shrubs, and all the sweets of pleasure-grounds, as by one impulse, one wish for air and liberty, all walked out.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)