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tease
Synonyms and Antonyms of tease
1
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
belittler, derider, detractor, giber (or jiber), insulter, jeerer, scoffer, scorner
smart aleck (also smart alec), smarty (or smartie), smarty-pants, wiseacre, wiseguy
2
one who is obnoxiously annoying
pain in the neck
tease
Synonyms and Antonyms of tease
1
to make fun of in a good-natured way
goof on [slang], take the mickey out of [British]
2
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults
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
make game of, pick on
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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