tantalizingly
adverb (UK usually tantalisingly) uk/ˈtæn.tə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/ us/ˈtæn.t̬ə.laɪ.zɪŋ.li/
逗引性地;挑逗性地
in a way that makes you feel excited and hope that you might get or do something, especially when this does not in fact happen
They came tantalizingly close to winning. 他们就差一点就能赢了。
Cooking smells wafted tantalizingly in the air. 空气中飘荡着诱人的烹饪气味。
See: tantalizing
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- The disappointment wouldn't weigh so heavily if the promise of victory hadn't swirled so tantalizingly close.
- Opening my eyes, I found his face just above my own, his lips so tantalizingly near I could have kissed him with the barest of efforts.
- But the play tantalizingly offers more than it gives.
- The resulting dishes are tantalizingly familiar yet enticingly exotic.