Synonyms:
inviting
Meaning: attractive and tempting; "an inviting offer"
Usage examples
Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?
Hesper was no sooner in London, than she wrote to Mary, inviting her to go and visit her.
It is very important to know how to prepare their food in an inviting manner; every thing should be perfectly clean and nice.
"Number one doesn't sound very inviting," said Rob, with a sour grimace. "Who is your number two?" Lloyd held out the second envelope.
The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four young girls.
The pathways of cliffs ordinarily imply a not very inviting declivity; they offer themselves less as a road than as a fall; they sink rather than incline.
I often heard them repeat the word "assai," and from their gestures I understood they were inviting me to go ashore, an invitation I felt obliged to decline.
I think myself extremely fortunate in having secured him. The chief reason, however, of my inviting him here was, that my poor mother might be properly taken care of.
On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
She had three children of her own to bring, besides she was intimately acquainted with a young man and a young woman, both slaves, to whom she felt that it would be safe to confide her plans with a view of inviting them to accompany her.