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Synonyms and Antonyms of baiting
- I wished the candidates would stop baiting each other and instead address the real issues
deriding, gibing (or jibing), jeering, mocking, ridiculing
annoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, fretting, frosting, galling, getting, gnawing (at), grating, griping, hacking (off), hagriding, irking, irritating, itching, nagging, narking [British], nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, troubling, vexing
aggravating, exasperating, goading, testing, trying
aggrieving, agitating, bedeviling, beleaguering, discomforting, disturbing, perturbing
browbeating, bullying, hectoring
harassing, harrying, persecuting, plaguing, terrorizing, tormenting, torturing
- the investment scheme cunningly baits the greedy and the unscrupulous
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