Synonyms for tantalizing

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1. tantalizing, tantalising(adj)

   arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach

   "a tantalizing taste of success"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, tantalising

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

2. tantalizing, tantalising, tempting(adj)

   very pleasantly inviting

   "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"

   Synonyms:
   tempting, alluring, tantalising, enticing, beguiling

   Antonyms:
   uninviting

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How to use tantalizing in a sentence?

1. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   When I was growing up in a small village in India, the fairy-tales and children's stories led me to believe that villains and bad guys look like monsters, and they are really very rude and crude in their behavior. The movies during my generation also strengthened that perseption. As I grew up and travelled around the world, I soon realized the reality that the bad guys and villains are often good looking, well-behaved, silky smooth, sharp and smart...often too smart to gain your complete confidence before their brutal betrayal and them deceitfully back-stabbing you when you least expect it. We all discover this harsh reality hard way, after getting entangled at least once in their tantalizing tangled web of deception, that appearances can often be deceptive, and too good to be true - always! And yet, not all the times but only occasionally, the dreamer and optimist inside us likes to believe those fairy-tales and the happy-ending movies from childhood....

2. Steven Nissen:

   The placebo effect is very powerful, i can imagine how this plays out in the athletic world, where you're operating at the 99th percentile of human performance. Someone says, 'I can give you something that's going to make you a little bit better.' It's very tantalizing to try it.

3. Sushil Atreya:

   We're beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year, i think there's something to it. I just don't have the answers yet. Nobody does.

4. Luigi Pirandello:

   Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: Blind yourself, for I am blind.

5. Jeff Anderson:

   That’s tantalizing because it suggests that maybe one of the things the short sleepers are doing in the scanner is performing memory consolidation more efficiently than non-short sleepers.

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