Definition of "untempting" [untempting]

• Not appealing to the senses (adjective)
• Not tempting (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the chilly dusk air, it looked most untempting, especially during that state of mind under which I was labouring."
• "Meanwhile the man killed and boiled a fowl, and boiled some sweet potato, and when these untempting viands, and a calabash of poi were put before us, we sat round them and eat; I with my knife, the others with their fingers."
• "As you go in, you observe on your left a little glass partition, something like a large cage, inside which, in a bar, are four or five untempting-looking bottles; and also inside the cage, on a chair, is to be seen a quiet-looking female, who is invariably engaged in the manufacture of some white article of inward clothing."