What is another word for teasing ?

Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way

“Teasing comments.”

Adjective

Done with humor or in jest

flaky^UK

flakey^US

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Adjective

Of or pertaining to flirtation

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Adjective

Questioning or suggesting puzzlement

enquiring^UK

inquiring^US

sceptical^UK

skeptical^US

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Adjective

enough to drive you up the wall

Causing irritation or annoyance

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

enough to try the patience of a saint

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Adjective

Exhibiting a mischievous or reckless playfulness

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Adjective

Expressing or characterized by derision

libelous^US

libellous^UK

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Adjective

Pleasantly and sensually exciting

colourful^UK

mesmerizing^US

colorful^US

mesmerising^UK

aesthetic^UK

esthetic^US

as pretty as a picture

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Adjective

Tending to misbehave or act badly

off straight and narrow

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Adjective

Showing or suggesting that one has knowledge or awareness of something

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Adjective

Aesthetically pleasing to view or look at

aesthetic^UK

esthetic^US

likeable^UK

likable^US

luring

provocative

seductive

as pretty as a picture

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Adjective

too difficult to understand

Difficult to interpret or understand

difficult to understand

impossible to understand

full of twists and turns

impossible to interpret

woolly^UK

wooly^US

too hard to understand

not easily understood

ravelled^UK

raveled^US

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Noun

An act or instance of annoying or aggravating somebody

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Noun

Good-humoured teasing

good-humoured mockery

humor^US

humour^UK

pleasant conversation

backhanded compliment

offences^UK

offenses^US

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Noun

Playing at courtship

Noun

A remark made in order to anger, wound, or provoke someone

backhanded compliment

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Noun

Abuse; insults

character assassination

disfavour^UK

disfavor^US

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

libeling^US

libelling^UK

judgment^US

judgement^UK

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Noun

being rubbed up the wrong way

Action or speech that makes someone angry, especially deliberately

offence^UK

offense^US

fuelling^UK

fueling^US

intellectual nourishment

stimulating substance

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Noun

Joking, tricks

pretence^UK

pretense^US

Noun

Mischievous or roguishly playful behavior

Noun

Activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by children

humour^UK

humor^US

gamboling^US

gambolling^UK

misbehavior^US

specialty^US

speciality^UK

vigor^US

vigour^UK

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Verb

giving someone a hard time

To be irritating or upsetting, typically with repeated or unpleasant acts

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

rubbing up the wrong way

driving to distraction

getting under your skin

getting up your nose

getting your goat

giving someone grief

giving someone the hump

hacking off

making your blood boil

driving round the bend

driving round the twist

getting your dander up

hacking you off

heating up

making someone see red

getting on your nerves

giving someone the pip

putting your back up

hitting where one lives

breathing down someone's neck

bending someone's ear

rubbing the wrong way

getting on one's nerves

victimizing^US

terrorizing^US

agonizing^US

getting on somebody's nerves

terrorising^UK

agonising^UK

victimising^UK

criticizing^US

getting in one's hair

criticising^UK

getting under one's skin

infesting

hurting

getting across someone

pushing someon's buttons

wigging

getting someone

leaning on

driving you up the wall

giving the business

insisting on

getting one's goat

sticking in one's craw

setting one's teeth on edge

running up the wrong way

questioning

festering

laying waste

bringing pressure to bear on

railroading

steamrollering

stressing out

preying on one's mind

tyrannizing^US

riding roughshod over

swaggering

dominating

pushing around

using strong-arm tactics on

investing

leaguering

discriminating against

guying

blockading

rousting

making it hot for someone

sticking the knife into

injuring

expelling

making things hot for someone

getting the knife into

storming

sieging

mocking

getting up somebody's nose

rubbing somebody up the wrong way

making someone's blood boil

getting on someone's nerves

sending into a rage

taking a rise out of

putting someone's back up

starting

getting in someone's hair

stirring up

trying one's patience

getting a rise out of

setting on

setting one off

trying someone's patience

getting someone's back up

tyrannising^UK

getting in the hair of

razzing

getting on the nerves of

taking the mickey out of

taking the piss out of

leading someone a merry dance

punishing

playing cat and mouse

wringing

boning

putting through wringer

rubbing salt in wound

keeping complaining to

making self-conscious

throwing into a tizzy

dishonoring^US

putting out of countenance

putting someone off their stroke

getting someone's goat

rattling someone's cage

ruffling someone's feathers

getting under someone's skin

getting up someone's nose

throwing into disorder

putting into a flap

crazing

put somebody's nose out of joint

setting someone back on their heels

causing offense

throwing into a tizz

making someone's hackles rise

getting someone's dander up

hurting somebody's feelings

causing to be at a stand

rubbing you up the wrong way

making someone scratch their head

getting under skin

demoralising^UK

putting someone's nose out of joint

causing someone to lose their composure

getting someone's wick

getting someone's hackles up

getting on someone's tits

pulling the rug from under

pushing one's buttons

destabilising^UK

making a mess of

flipping

putting someone off their stride

lousing up

putting the wind up

trying the patience of

getting out of order

throwing into confusion

scaring the bejesus out of

blowing one's mind

giving a turn

ruffling one's feathers

pulling the rug out from under

galvanizing^US

putting someone off his stride

putting your nose out of joint

triggering

pushing someone's buttons

galvanising^UK

getting on someone's wick

losing one's temper

riling up

rubbing one the wrong way

heating

jarring upon

setting your teeth on edge

catching somebody unawares

catching somebody off balance

bringing into disorder

throwing into disarray

making a shambles of

setting thinking

stymieing

getting your hackles up

messing with one's head

making punchy

intoxicating

staggering

setting someone thinking

upsetting the apple cart

putting the wind up someone

making jump

scaring the living daylights out of

scaring to death

making someone's hair stand on end

scaring silly

scaring stiff

giving someone a turn

balking^US

getting into a tangle

raveling^US

ravelling^UK

baulking^UK

stopping someone in their tracks

hurting someone's feelings

treading on someone's toes

putting off his or her stride

taking the wind out of someone's sails

twisting someone's arm

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Verb

To be arousing someone

firing the imagination of

floating someone's boat

getting going

giving someone a thrill

lighting someone's fire

tickling someone's fancy

galvanizing^US

galvanising^UK

getting someone going

lighting a fire under

firing the enthusiasm of

rallying

producing

mesmerizing^US

magnetizing^US

mesmerising^UK

magnetising^UK

hypnotizing^US

sweeping off one's feet

hypnotising^UK

drawing one's attention

exerting influence on

baiting

catching someone's eye

steering

whetting the appetite of

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Verb

Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

satirising^UK

satirizing^US

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

giving someone a hard time

pulling someone's leg

pulling somebody's leg

giving a hard time

taking the mickey out of

taking the piss out of

making a monkey out of

treating with contempt

treating contemptuously

holding up to ridicule

pulling someone's chain

playing a practical joke

making a laughing-stock

playing a practical joke on

getting a rise out of

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

leading up the garden path

laughing out of court

putting on an act

making someone a laughing stock

gambolling^UK

frolicking

gamboling^US

having somebody on

telling somebody stories

catcalling

mucking someone about

shouting disapproval at

messing someone around

shucking someone

making a monkey out of someone

putting someone on

messing someone about

blowing raspberries at

poking fun

slighting

making a crack

making someone's mouth water

keeping someone hanging on

wounding

libeling^US

libelling^UK

calling someone names

casting aspersions on

aspersing

derogating

disobliging

stepping on one's toes

dishonoring^US

degrading

cutting to the quick

debasing

treating disrespectfully

underestimating

dishonouring^UK

cutting dead

hurting someone's feelings

abasing

blistering

upsetting

giving someone the cold-shoulder

giving offence to

cursing

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“Yeah, it can even be the same red that matadors use to tease the bull to charge.”

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making romantic advances to

Present participle for behave as though sexually attracted to someone, but playfully rather than with serious intentions

picking up

winking at

batting eyes at

giving the come-on to

making a move

making a pass

making eyes at

making sheep's eyes at

behaving flirtatiously

flirting with

carrying on

womanizing^US

womanising^UK

playing fast and loose

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putting someone up to something

Present participle for to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers

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Present participle for to hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look

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Present participle for to fondle, kid, pet, tease

maneuvering^US

manoeuvring^UK

talking into something

twisting somebody's arm

honeying

swaying

bringing someone round

licking someone's boots

laying it on

bringing pressure to bear on

rubbing the right way

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Present participle for to deceive or fool someone

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Present participle for fail to fulfil the hopes or expectations of

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