tease
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Synonyms for tease
Synonyms: Verb
chaff, jive, joke, josh, kid, rally, razz, rib, ride, roast
Synonyms: Noun
baiter, harasser, heckler, mocker, needler, persecutor, quiz, quizzer, ridiculer, taunter, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer
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Examples of tease in a Sentence
Verb
He and his wife enjoy teasing each other about their different tastes in music. The other children teased her because she was wearing braces. He was always teased by his brother about being short. Oh, don't get so angry. I was just teasing! The boy's mother told him to stop teasing the dog.Noun
a pretty girl who has the reputation of being a bit of a tease The lower rate is just a tease to attract new customers.
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While the movie opens with Harlan's housekeeper (Edi Patterson) finding him dead, recaps of the previous evening's birthday celebration from multiple viewpoints allow the ever-formidable Plummer to show what a teasing old rogue the author was. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Knives Out': Film Review | TIFF 2019," 8 Sep. 2019 Minaj teased the collection on her Instagram account earlier in the summer. — Paula Rogo, Essence, "Nicki Minaj Gives Sneak Peek Of Her Fendi Capsule Collection," 8 Sep. 2019 The photo, which features a copy of the Bible opened to Psalm 57:6, a flashlight, a jar of lemons and multiple rough drafts, focuses on a sheet of notebook paper teasing the album title and a potential tracklist. — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, "Brad Pitt Joins Kanye West for Sunday Service Held in Watts with Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Kendall," 1 Sep. 2019 Homecoming also ended on a cliffhanger teasing the Sinister Six, a group of iconic Spider-Man villains. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, "What the Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Looks Like Without Spider-Man," 22 Aug. 2019 Metacritic score: 59 As Good Boys’ marketing cheekily teased, 12-year-olds won’t actually be able to see this film about three 12-year-old boys, on account of its R rating (for, basically, raunch and language). — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Good Boys," 16 Aug. 2019 Those were the days before the Galacticos and Muñoz joined a side teasing the relegation zone before the arrival of near-mythical heroes like Di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas and Paco Gento who lifted them to the apex of the sport. — SI.com, "Miguel Muñoz: The Man Who Told Alfredo Di Stefano to F*ck Off & Led the Ye-Ye's to European Glory," 25 July 2019 Shoulder pads; teased hair; spandex—the '80s tend to get a bad rap, stylistically speaking. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "This Instagram Account of '80s Decor Will Be Your New Favorite Follow," 28 June 2019 Americans are at times teased for preferring less-flavorful beer that is served near freezing, while Britons and Irish people are thought to like fuller brews poured warm. — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, "What Is the Best Temperature for Drinking Beer?," 6 Apr. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The trailer is the sweetest of teases for the new movie, featuring in rapid-fire montage some of the most beloved moments from Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel. — Constance Grady, Vox, "The trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women promises a focus on women’s ambition, not romance," 13 Aug. 2019 Even more of a tease is how Armstrong seems to make up fictional plotlines that later turn out to be true. — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, "Media, Money and Murdochs: How 'Succession' Became the Perfect Show for the Trump Era," 31 July 2019 So if there are any young kids out there who have a passion to pursue dance, don’t be discouraged by those who might laugh or make fun, tease or taunt. — Washington Post, "Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done," 26 Aug. 2019 Well, without knowing it, Popeyes had thrown down the fried-chicken gauntlet with a Twitter tease that rival Chick-fil-A could not resist. — Patrick May, The Mercury News, "Are you Team Popeyes or Team Chick-Fil-A? #ChickenWars rages online," 23 Aug. 2019 But wait — waiting is what the reader is doing, mostly — the tease comes up again 63 pages later. — David Shribman, BostonGlobe.com, "Tuned in to the ‘Summer of ’69’," 22 Aug. 2019 The chicken sandwich that Sweet Dixie Kitchen served for that two-day tease is, as of last week, available at all 3,102 Popeyes locations in the United States. — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, "The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America," 20 Aug. 2019 So can Bears fans handle another season in the gray area, another year that could very well end with a hung verdict and more divisive debate on whether their quarterback is a championship-caliber playmaker or just a giant tease? — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, "5 questions as Bears training camp ends: Has the defense adjusted to Chuck Pagano? Is Mitch Trubisky progressing? And how healthy is this team?," 10 Aug. 2019 Prior to those teases, Epic kicked off arguably the most ambitious in-game event in Fortnite to date, with a massive clash between a giant pink robot and a very angry kaiju. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "Fortnite season X adds mech suits, a meteor, and ‘volatile rift zones’," 1 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tease.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.