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as in tease
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
I try to ignore the rude comments baiters leave on the website
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as in seducer
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire
my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows I'm on a diet
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Recent Examples of baiter
The former quarterback turned race-baiter, who shamed his White parents who adopted him.
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Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
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Roger J. Kreuz,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
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Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
For many Democrats, however, Kirk was an offensive rage-baiter and the face of the MAGA movement's combative style.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
—
Roger J. Kreuz,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
For many Democrats, however, Kirk was an offensive rage-baiter and the face of the MAGA movement's combative style.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baiter
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The series was meant to have a three-season arc, now cut short, despite a cliffhanger tease of what was to come at the end of season 1.
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They are all stuffed into selections from the adults-only section of a Spirit Halloween store and made to perform amateur strip teases for their fellow Islanders — all strapped to heart-rate monitors — to see who can raise whose heart rate the most.
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Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.
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Still, the star did not name her harassers.
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Most harassers do not harass others in front of someone else.
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There are also entertaining recollections of how Cameron joined the band (after Thayil saved him from a Scientologist solicitor) and how Shepherd was especially coveted by Cornell because the bassist was from Bainbridge, Washington, just like Cornell’s beloved roommate Andy Wood.
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Review your shareholder agreement with a corporate solicitor.
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Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.
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Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.
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Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women.
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Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women.
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So Jacob is now related to his tormentor.
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Crucial events morphed into massive set pieces, like Louis hunting down Claudia’s killers by setting their theater on fire, exploding the motorcycles of the vampires who fled the inferno, and eventually bursting out of a manhole to behead Claudia’s main tormenter.
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The campaign also stresses that the sirens are geared toward people who are outside during extreme weather, alerting them to seek shelter, Cagann said.
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And as Hood watches, Chayton snaps Siobhan’s neck … just as sirens appear in the background, causing all of the Redbones to flee.
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“Baiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiter. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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