Synonyms of baiting

baiting 1 of 2

adjective

as in mocking

Related Words

• mocking
• taunting
• ridiculing
• needling
• heckling
• derisive
• jeering
• deriding
• hassling
• derisory
• sarcastic
• joking
• bandying
• kidding
• contemptuous
• razzing
• bantering
• fooling
• scornful
• rallying
• quipping
• quizzical
• joshing
• disdainful
• jesting
• ribbing
• chaffing
• funning

baiting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bait

1

as in taunting

to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults

I wished the candidates would stop baiting each other and instead address the real issues

Synonyms & Similar Words

• taunting
• teasing
• mocking
• bothering
• heckling
• needling
• ridiculing
• riding
• hassling
• hazing
• torturing
• annoying
• making game of
• picking on
• plaguing
• irritating
• trying
• pestering
• goading
• jeering
• deriding
• bullying
• testing
• riling
• badgering
• gibing
• bugging
• harassing
• nettling
• troubling
• spiting
• hounding
• dogging
• tormenting
• itching
• aggravating
• disturbing
• griping
• exasperating
• burning (up)
• agitating
• irking
• grating
• nagging
• ruffling
• vexing
• galling
• hacking (off)
• chafing
• piquing
• persecuting
• gnawing (at)
• narking
• fretting
• perturbing
• frosting
• browbeating
• getting
• bedeviling
• hectoring
• putting out
• terrorizing
• harrying
• rasping
• discomforting
• beleaguering
• peeving
• hagriding
• aggrieving

2

as in tempting

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage

the investment scheme cunningly baits the greedy and the unscrupulous

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tempting
• luring
• seducing
• persuading
• enticing
• decoying
• betraying
• soliciting
• trapping
• leading on
• alluring
• beguiling
• fascinating
• snaring
• entrapping
• drawing in
• enchanting
• inveigling
• ensnaring
• snowing
• meshing
• catching
• tangling
• roping (in)
• enmeshing
• charming
• captivating
• magnetizing
• bewitching
• wiling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• warning
• alerting
• cautioning
• warding (off)
• driving (away or off)
• turning away
• forewarning
• repulsing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of baiting

Verb

It may be overlooked, considering how comfortable Suzuki appears when carrying out Unai Emery’s ploy of his backline baiting an opponent’s press, but at Parma, he was required to kick mostly long. — Aston Villa, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Another day, another millennial-nostalgia-baiting sequel to a classic late 1990s or early 2000s movie. — Lauren O’Neill, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026

Warriors fans might just have to stomach a few shameless foul-baiting antics in a late back-to-back in Oklahoma City. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

The genre, with its sanitized storylines and Oscar-baiting pretensions, seems fundamentally at odds with the iconoclastic chef and television personality. — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026

When baiting large animals was outlawed in the 1800s, people turned instead to fighting their dogs against each other. — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

Better Than a Scammer Laurent Giovannoni is a principal software engineer at Filigran, a threat intelligence platform, and will present code for ScamBuster, a scam-baiting program designed to waste scammers’ time and energy. — Kim Key, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026

Race-baiting narratives and professional victimhood have become staples of his brand. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

Beasley had been baiting Preston’s jumper all night and playing mind games with other JHX Hoops members in between game action. — Latif Love july 23, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026