Temptation vs Decoy - What's the difference?
temptation | decoy |
The act of tempting
The condition of being tempted.
Something attractive, tempting or seductive; an inducement or enticement.
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Pressure applied to your thinking designed to create wrong emotions which will eventually lead to wrong actions.
A person or object meant to lure something to danger.
A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
To act or use a decoy.
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
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As nouns the difference between temptation and decoy
is that temptation is the act of tempting while decoy is a person or object meant to lure something to danger.As a verb decoy is
to act or use a decoy.temptation
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* temptationlessdecoy
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(en verb)- to decoy''' troops into an ambush; to '''decoy ducks into a net
- E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy , / The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.