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as in tease
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
I try to ignore the rude comments baiters leave on the website
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as in seducer
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire
my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows I'm on a diet
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Recent Examples of baiter
The former quarterback turned race-baiter, who shamed his White parents who adopted him.
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Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
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Roger J. Kreuz,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
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Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
For many Democrats, however, Kirk was an offensive rage-baiter and the face of the MAGA movement's combative style.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 May 2026
Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
—
Roger J. Kreuz,
Fortune,
5 Dec. 2025
Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters.
—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
For many Democrats, however, Kirk was an offensive rage-baiter and the face of the MAGA movement's combative style.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baiter
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The Venice Film Festival is providing a little erotic tease ahead of its official program, screening Italian softcore thriller Deadly Sweet in its pre-opening slot ahead of this year’s event.
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Dancehall sounds like a tease in the dead of winter.
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Stoker’s Frankensteined creation was born from the history of the Anglo-literary vampire that begins with Polidori’s Ruthven, the first aristocratic, Byronesque and demonic seducer.
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There is just no defending that behavior, and the harasser/scumbag should walk the plank, so to speak.
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Still, the star did not name her harassers.
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In the early 1970s, in the midst of an oil crisis, my father ran a solicitors' firm.
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Cohen asked the deputy city solicitor about use of force cases.
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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.
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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.
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Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women.
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Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (Enyi Okoronkwo) is promoted to chief fellow party animal and tempter, showing up at Mozart’s door draped in women.
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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.
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So Jacob is now related to his tormentor.
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Kerr County was among the first to install and begin testing sirens along the Guadalupe River in May 2026.
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Air raid sirens sounded for hours overnight, and explosions were heard across the city as Ukrainian air defenses worked to repel waves of incoming weapons.
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“Baiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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