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as in harassers
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 seducers
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 baiters
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.
—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baiters
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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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But the long-running saga involving the scion of a prominent and powerful family of local lawyers and solicitors took an unexpected turn this week when the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions.
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Three generations served as solicitors on the state’s 14th Circuit, while maintaining a lucrative private law practice in Hampton County.
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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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Rhys teases of the finale’s contents.
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Bahrain had activated sirens multiple times early Sunday local time and told residents to head to a safe place.
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Five hundred and sixty feet above the city, meanwhile, a three-story terrace provides a dramatic setting for private gatherings and quieter moments above the city’s sirens and bustling foot traffic.
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McIlroy was even seen stepping back from the ball to quip back at one of the hecklers, while others, including his friend Shane Lowry, were also quick to respond.
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For Bellinger, at least, a creative exchange with some professional hecklers was more welcomed.
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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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That their tormentors were not untouchable.
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If the tormenters keep it up, grackles do eventually move.
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Shakespeare humanizes the Elizabethan stage stereotype of the villainous Jew by giving Shylock ample reason for wanting to get back at his Christian persecutors.
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
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“Baiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiters. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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