tantalizingly

adverb

tan·​ta·​liz·​ing·​ly

variants also British tantalisingly

ˈ⸗⸗ˌ⸗⸗⸗, 

ˌ⸗⸗ˈ⸗⸗⸗

: in a tantalizing manner

a tantalizingly slim chance of survival in the courts

—Wenzell Brown

illuminate an era of human life and of nature so tantalizingly recent and so utterly destroyed

—John Collier, born 1884

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