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tease
Synonyms and Antonyms of tease
- she can be a very cruel tease when she happens upon an unpopular girl who is easily hurt
belittler, derider, detractor, giber (or jiber), insulter, jeerer, scoffer, scorner
smart aleck (also smart alec), smarty (or smartie), smarty-pants, wiseacre, wiseguy
- my youngest brother is a complete tease, following me around everywhere and aping my every move
tease
Synonyms and Antonyms of tease
- likes to tease her twin brother about his seemingly endless string of girlfriends
goof on [slang], take the mickey out of [British]
- grew up being teased because his parents were hog farmers
deride, gibe (or jibe), jeer, mock, ridicule
annoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, fret, frost, gall, get, gnaw (at), grate, gripe, hack (off), hagride, irk, irritate, itch, nag, nark [British], nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, trouble, vex
aggravate, exasperate, goad, test, try
aggrieve, agitate, bedevil, beleaguer, discomfort, disturb, perturb
harass, harry, persecute, plague, terrorize, torment, torture
Synonym Discussion of tease
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- pursued a policy of worrying the enemy
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- you're doing that just to annoy me
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- harassed on all sides by creditors
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- the strikers had been harried by thugs
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- plagued all her life by poverty
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- constantly pestered with trivial complaints
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- children teased the dog
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