tempter

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In it, he draws parallels between Jack Nicholson’s character and the devil: “a tempter who draws people into his sphere of influence.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Somebody was the tempter, the proactive initiator, and it wasn't the colleges.

From Salon • May 27, 2019

Many of his targets will forever rue the day they agreed to sit down with this shape-shifter, this tempter who brings out their worst side under the camera’s glare.

From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2018

Satan, the great tempter of men’s souls, takes deceptively innocuous form in the frisky new comedy “Hand to God,” by Robert Askins, at the Ensemble Studio Theater.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2011

“Oh, I think you know what I mean. Somewhere there is a tempter, a serpent, so to speak, and I had to keep them from meeting.”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman