Crossword clues for tantalized
tantalized
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tantalize \Tan"ta*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tantalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Tantalizing.] [From Tantalus: cf. F. tantaliser.] To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment.
Thy vain desires, at strife
Within themselves, have tantalized thy life.
--Dryden.
Syn: To tease; vex; irritate; provoke.
Usage: Tantalize, Disappoint. To disappoint is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to be) appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the ground. To tantalize, a much stronger term, describes a most distressing form of disappointment, as in the case of Tantalus, the Phrygian king. To tantalize is to visit with the bitterest disappointment -- to torment by exciting hopes or expectations which can never be realized.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: tantalize)
Usage examples of "tantalized".
His smile broadened as he deliberately tantalized his breathless audience.
The boys fell to their chores, tantalized by the odors of roasting meat.
He tried not to notice the warmth of her skin and the exotic mixture of gardenias and cocktail sauce that tantalized his senses.
His fingers and palm luxuriated in the warm silkiness of her skin, tantalized by the knowledge that even richer tactile pleasures waited both above and below where his hand now rested.
Or—a wild hope tantalized him—unless the ship's processors were too busy with some other problem to navigate them out of Singularity.
Her skin was warm through the thin stuff of her dress, and her flowery, spicy scent tantalized him.
One in particular intrigued him, and he hov ered as close to it as he could, tantalized by a sense of tranquil familiarity.
That woke him and he shot upright in the bed, anxious eyes seeking hers, a hesitant, shy smile on the lips that had tantalized her the night before.
Ballybran's ranges tempted, taunted, tantalized, hiding wealth produced by titanic forces boiling from the molten core of the planet: a wealth created by the technical needs of an ever-expanding galactic population and found on an ancient world with no other resources to commend it.
Six panels, three on an arc of the curved roof, tantalized, but their surface, once undoubtedly transparent, was now badly scored and darkened.
He remembered everything about his time in New Mexico with unnatural clarity, a vividness that tantalized, infuriated, and confused him.
She'd loved playing with that hair, had teased and tantalized him mercilessly, using the tip of her tongue to comb through the dense mat to the tiny nipples hiding beneath.
If he had tantalized her before, this was torture, the sweetest torture imaginable.
Though he recognized only a fraction of the foods piled high on folding tables, and though he had eaten breakfast only a couple of hours earlier, he was tantalized by the rich, exotic aromas.
Even the roughness of his badly shaven beard tantalized me, and I loved the strength in his hands as he struck at me.