baiter

noun

Definition of baiternext
1
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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2
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 Synonyms for baiter
  1. tease
  2. solicitor
  3. tempter
  4. tormentor
  5. siren
  6. heckler
Noun
  • The silly Golden Globes moment might be a tease of the type of comedy fans will get to see on Apple TV+’s The Studio, starring both Rogen and O’Hara, alongside Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, and Chase Sui Wonders.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
  • After winning the women’s Money in the Bank match on July 6, Stratton had a number of teases, but on the first episode of SmackDown on USA, Tiffy struck.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of tease
Noun
  • Property owners can legally place signs on their premises to prohibit unwanted visitors, including solicitors, canvassers and other uninvited guests.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The real estate solicitor Jonathan Harker has become Thomas Hutter; his fiancée, Mina, is now his wife, Ellen; his employer Renfield, secretly in thrall to the count, is renamed Herr Knock; and the role of the vampire hunter Van Helsing has been reduced and remade into Professor Sievers.
    Jason Bailey, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of solicitor
Noun
  • Jesus again rejects material gain, and finally banishes the tempter: Satan is not the real God, because there is only one God; the Devil doesn’t have the best tunes.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Dre Kirkpatrick let his tempter get the best of him after Arizona had stopped Seattle on third down and during a confrontation with the Seahawks’ Metcalf, got hit with a costly 15-yard taunting penalty that changed the entire complexion of the situation.
    Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2020
Definition of tempter
Noun
  • Can't imagine putting my kid in that position for hours and hours at a time with a tormentor for two weeks.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But Hasina’s ouster both expunged his legal travails and presented a late career change as his tormentor’s successor.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of tormentor
Noun
  • Lopez play Aurora, a classic screen siren who exists in the imagination of Luis Molina, a gay hairdresser, who retreats into fantasies while trapped in an Argentine prison.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
  • For the past week, the group has launched ballistic missiles toward the country almost nightly, setting off sirens and sending Israelis fleeing into bomb shelters in their pajamas.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of siren
Noun
  • New York Knicks fans — and star Karl-Anthony Towns — are cheering on the national anthem singer who pushed back after her rendition was briefly interrupted by a heckler on Thursday night.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The video shows an interaction between Kelce and a heckler outside the stadium where Penn State played Ohio State on Saturday.
    Jillian Sykes, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of heckler
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