NEEDLER Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

needler

noun

Definition of needler

as in tease

a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another those merciless needlers who had the child in tears almost every day at school

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Noun

What begins as misjudgment, the official synopsis teases, spirals through human conflict into tragedy on a cosmic scale.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026
Dancehall sounds like a tease in the dead of winter.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 28 June 2026

Definition of tease

Noun

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.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
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.

— Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

Definition of torturer

Noun

Razia showed up at the scene not to aid in a kidnapping, but to confront her online tormentor, Sacks maintained.

— John Annese, New York Daily News, 4 July 2026
But her primary tormenter, former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested last year under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

— William Earl, Variety, 29 June 2026

Definition of tormentor

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