as in tease
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
the players paid no attention to the mockers in the stands
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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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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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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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“Mocker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mocker. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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