1
as in tormenters
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
I try to ignore the rude comments baiters leave on the website
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
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
Synonyms & Similar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of baiters
Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
—
Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baiters
Noun
-
Unauthorized vendors or solicitors of any kind.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
23 Sep. 2025
-
Phishing texts claiming that tolls haven’t been paid or packages can’t be delivered, calls from solicitors promising to erase debt, malware emails offering winnings from a sweepstakes that no one ever entered.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
The Project Runway star shared teases of herself wearing green paint and prosthetics.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Nov. 2025
-
Season one may only be six episodes, but it’s padded out with meandering subplots, vague teases for a second-season mystery, and one overly long and slow-motion-dependent scene at a nightclub.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
Bostwick's character is famously called an a**hole by the film's hecklers.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025
-
Footage widely circulated showed the two hecklers escorted away by security.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
For decades, generals, coup-plotters, and torturers walked free under the shield of amnesty laws passed after the country’s 21-year dictatorship.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
-
Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
-
Video of the incident shows the officer followed Belt-Stubblefield's vehicle with his lights and sirens on for just under a minute over about 7/10ths of a mile before Belt-Stubblefield crashed.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025
-
Serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Santos Jimenez used to get scared when sirens would go off.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
-
The mind could wander briefly about the Giants riding a two-game winning streak into a Thursday Night Football matchup with the Eagles, equipped to knock off their tormentors who suddenly look vulnerable.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
-
There appears to be no limit to his sensitivity or his determination to humble his tormentors.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
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.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
-
That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
Security firm LayerX discovered a potentially major vulnerability in the ChatGPT Atlas browser that allows attackers to inject malicious instructions into ChatGPT’s memory.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
-
Reducing your digital footprint limits the amount of information that phishing attackers can use to make fake emails look convincing.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Baiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiters. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share