adjective as in pestering
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badgering, bothering, disturbing, exasperating, harassing, kidding, plaguing, provoking, ribbing, taunting, tickling, tormenting, vexing
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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.
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After some teasing and talking, Mulvehill writes that she is “hesitant” but they start kissing.
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The teasing is so common that is has been accepted as “the standard ginger bullying” by those who Knights has encountered.
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Leach ran an ad teasing Margolies about her Clinton connection, dismissing the first family of Democratic politics as old news.
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The group was overheard teasing Harry about reports that he will soon be walking down the aisle.
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Then I suddenly realised she was talking seriously—looking to me for help of some kind—and at once I dropped the teasing attitude.
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Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.
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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.
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I came up to the elephant, and seeing what was going on, told the white men to stop teasing him.
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All night the thought crept through my brain like a teasing spider: What can we do to make him stay?
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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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
