as in tease
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
any person of great vision has his or her ridiculers, who inevitably fail to appreciate genius and originality
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Noun
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Ahead of the 2026 Academy Awards, host Conan O’Brien gave a brief tease at what the late Rob Reiner’s in-memoriam tribute would look like on Sunday.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026 -
Abby is reading these teases after wrangling a feisty debate for 10 minutes.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Mahmoudian decided to help his torturer.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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The film, which looks at a former political prisoner who considers violent revenge against his prison torturer, was co-written by Panahi, Mahmoudian, Nader Saeiver and Shadhmer Rastin.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Feb. 2026
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Of course, that conservative approach is often wrecked by QB harassers such as Lawrence and Williams, part of a defense that ranked seventh in the NFL in sacks.—
Eric Branch,
San Francisco Chronicle,
17 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the lawsuit argued, law enforcement in the area where the harasser lived should have served the papers.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Dec. 2025
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“Ridiculer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridiculer. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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