tantalizing

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"It's tantalizing -- horrible!" he shivered again, as if the superheated air chilled him.

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  1. very pleasantly inviting
  2. arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach

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  • (Boy, am I having fun being tantalizing -- or at least what passes for tantalizing to my little mind.)
  • But it would take a stronger man than I to resist the kind of tantalizing, tasty temptation found in a Franz Ferdinand-Fiona Apple affair. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • And the chance to kick the Stamps while they're down is awfully tantalizing, said quarterback Ricky Ray, although it would hardly put a capper on what has already been a terrific season. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • It seems to me that Pinker does what is often done by the popular media: raises a tantalizing issue and then dismisses it by collapsing it into the dominant paradigm. —  fragments of consciousness
  • They're tantalizing, and interesting, but in the end, they radically change your architecture versus using MySQL and once you're locked in by these big changes to your software, you can only buy the service from one vendor. —  SmoothSpan Blog
 

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tantalizing:   tantalize ·  tantalized
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