The word 'tantalise' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the feeling of being teased or tantalized by something, usually something pleasant. For example, "The exquisite aroma of the cake tantalised my senses."
The firm solicits new clients with advertisements which tantalise people with dreams of huge payouts.
We are calling it after a Frankish chieftain, born around 742, an early zealot for "the European idea".We do not invoke Charlemagne to parade him as some shiny exemplar of togetherly European virtue, but because of the uncanny way in which so many of the geopolitical puzzles of his age still tantalise today.
For we're still living in a time where celebrity magazines delight in pointing out the – "shock! horror!" – cellulite of the rich and famous, each garish 'bikini body' or 'baby bump' spread designed to taunt and to tantalise.
McLaren briefly managed Adam Ant and Boy George and the one-hit wonders Jimmy The Hoover of "Tantalise (Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh)" fame.
Norrington's great gift has always to make all the music he conducts sound new and exciting, to tantalise and surprise, to keep even familiar pieces sounding suspenseful.
But more often, the fragments of a long-running show only serve to tantalise.
In similar vein, many of those who came to the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society brought results that were tantalising without actually sating the appetite.One of the most tantalising of all was the non-announcement of the discovery of an earth-sized planet orbiting a star other than the sun.
So is Mad Dogs tantalising?
It combines real-time information from the Internet with ads stored on a CD-Rom, so that customers can be regaled with tantalising images far too complex to be sent down a normal Internet connection.
One complains that proposals churn between the policy forum, the policy commissions and the policy review each a different combination of Labour Party figures consulting fellow Labourites, experts and the public.When the party finally got around to suggesting some plans to reform welfare, on April 7th, they were tantalising.
THERE are tantalising signs of good news in the world economy.
