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Tantalization

noun
1.
The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances.  Synonyms: ribbing, tease, teasing.  "His ribbing was gentle but persistent"






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"Tantalization" Quotes from Famous Books



... end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. 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!" ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... among those who could have discerned her peculiar power, and early fed with the fruits of beauty for which her spirit pined, she would have developed into one of the finest lyrists, romancers and critics, that the modern literary world has seen. This she knew; and this tantalization of her fate ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II • Margaret Fuller Ossoli



Words linked to "Tantalization" :   harassment, tantalize, molestation, ribbing, teasing



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