Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of tantalizing, or the state of being tantalized. Also spelled
tantalisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
tantalizing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
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Examples
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And even if so, the tantalization will only be greater if she has to live through another couple of days before cloistering herself to read it.
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Everyone is initially skeptical about the taste bud tantalization they are about to receive.
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Everyone is initially skeptical about the taste bud tantalization they are about to receive.
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Just as a goodly store of water at Watford would be a tantalization to thirsty London if it were not brought into town for its use, so any amount of news accumulated at Printing-house
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And even if so, the tantalization will only be greater if she has to live through another couple of days before cloistering herself to read it.
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And even if so, the tantalization will only be greater if she has to live through another couple of days before cloistering herself to read it.
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And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg — “Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!”
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For the sheer power of the self-tantalization I joined him late in his journey and followed him as he approached the Temple of Ghanghesha.
She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997
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Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, be mistaken for malevolence.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Their honors were too short-lived, and too circumscribed, to be much more than a lively tantalization, to be remembered with disgust by those who had worn them.
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward
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