tantalize

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tantalize, such as: annoy, baffle, entice, fascinate, frustrate, and titillate.

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How to use tantalize in a sentence

  • Their affections may be deeply rooted, but they cannot repulse fate when it tantalizes them with a risk.

    Beyond | John Galsworthy
  • There is an unknown quantity, an insoluble point, in them, which tantalizes the reader.

  • She tantalizes the rest with a bantering word; and sometimes, when she is most in earnest, she seems to be most in jest.

    Vassall Morton | Francis Parkman
  • Who provokes and tantalizes and lures on a man, and then stops him short at the very last moment.

    Swirling Waters | Max Rittenberg
  • A milliner tantalizes the passer-by with a single hat stuck knowingly on a carved stick.

    Fanny Herself | Edna Ferber

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