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teasing
adjective as in pestering
Strongest matches
Strong matches
badgering, bothering, disturbing, exasperating, harassing, kidding, plaguing, provoking, ribbing, taunting, tickling, tormenting, vexing
Example Sentences
The result is a standout, lyrically bleak novel whose teasing title, “The Dark Remains,” can be taken to mean a few things — none of them good.
I inherited the Arnold Family Thunder ThighsTM, which was a source of frequent teasing and distress for me as a child.
After some teasing and talking, Mulvehill writes that she is “hesitant” but they start kissing.
The teasing is so common that is has been accepted as “the standard ginger bullying” by those who Knights has encountered.
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.
Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.
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.
I came up to the elephant, and seeing what was going on, told the white men to stop teasing him.
All night the thought crept through my brain like a teasing spider: What can we do to make him stay?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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