tantalizer
- n someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach
- By building up to a lovemaking crisis and not letting it come offas Hitchcock did in NotoriousCaniff has become the best tantalizer in the profession.
- When they also discovered the forward passthe tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could seethey were on their way to owning the world.
- The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half .