teasing

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to teasing, such as: irritating, joking, mocking, badgering, bothering, and disturbing.

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How to use teasing in a sentence

  • The teasing is so common that is has been accepted as “the standard ginger bullying” by those who Knights has encountered.

    Redheads Are Sexy, Dammit! | Justin Jones | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Leach ran an ad teasing Margolies about her Clinton connection, dismissing the first family of Democratic politics as old news.

  • The group was overheard teasing Harry about reports that he will soon be walking down the aisle.

  • Then I suddenly realised she was talking seriously—looking to me for help of some kind—and at once I dropped the teasing attitude.

    Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
  • Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

    The Daisy Chain | Charlotte Yonge
  • He has been teasing my parrot in its cage, and has plucked so many of its feathers that it now looks like a beaked rat.

    Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
  • I came up to the elephant, and seeing what was going on, told the white men to stop teasing him.

    Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
  • All night the thought crept through my brain like a teasing spider: What can we do to make him stay?

    The Holes and John Smith | Edward W. Ludwig

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