Definition of "tantaliser" []

• Someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The top tantaliser ahead of the home fixture with Manchester City tomorrow night, which he accepted could define his club's Premier League title challenge, concerned when City's Arab owners wanted to appoint him as their manager, which was believed to be after the sacking of Mark Hughes."
• "And 'ere's the spirits in the tantaliser' tisn't ever kept locked, in case Master Johnny should bring a friend in."
• "Take immortality, the arch-tantaliser with the greatest price - for gods and madmen, only."