释义
[ tan -tl-ahy-zing ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈtæn tlˌaɪ zɪŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, especially that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach: a tantalizing taste of success.
Origin of tantalizing First recorded in 1650–60; tantalize + -ing2
OTHER WORDS FROM tantalizing tan·ta·liz·ing·ly, adverb un·tan·ta·liz·ing, adjective
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH tantalizing tantalizing , titillatingWords nearby tantalizing tantalate, tantalic, tantalic acid, tantalite, tantalize, tantalizing , tantalous, tantalum, Tantalus, tantalus monkey, tantamount
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Example sentences from the Web for tantalizing Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.
Sight Unseen: Cézanne’s Mysterious Wife | Lizzie Crocker| November 19, 2014| DAILY BEAST
She remembers, of course, being tantalized by the tantalizing opening breakdown scene.
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In support of his assessment, he offers a number of tantalizing theories, only partially undergirded by fully explored evidence.
The Myth of the Central Park Five | Edward Conlon| October 19, 2014| DAILY BEAST
It requires something on the scale of an earthquake, which is why impeachment talk is so tantalizing .
Pelosi to Boehner: I Quashed Impeachment, and So Can You | Eleanor Clift| August 1, 2014| DAILY BEAST
More interestingly than that, there was a tantalizing early mention of September 11 as "mysterious."
Ahmadinejad, Man of Moderation | Michael Tomasky| September 26, 2012| DAILY BEAST
This visit was not to be a tantalizing little piece of stiffness an hour and a half long.
Miss Billy | Eleanor H. Porter
But to starving men, with not a mouthful in our grasp, this display of food was tantalizing .
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War | Various
Nevertheless, he answered nicely in that tantalizing way which often makes a woman flash forth.
Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Richard Doddridge Blackmore
We repeat the description of one, for the sake of tantalizing our European readers with the Egyptian taste in housings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 | Various
In the darkness he heard chiming voices, wheedling and tantalizing .
Where the Blue Begins | Christopher Morley
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