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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  1. tease
  2. solicitor
  3. tempter
  4. tormentor
  5. siren
  6. heckler
Noun
  • Instead, those hints of a so-bad-it’s-good guilty pleasure are a fleeting tease in an action thriller that spills plenty of blood but never raises the temperature or ignites the excitement.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
  • These are just a tease of everything coming to Agents of Sabotage.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of tease
Noun
  • These updates were desperately needed, Pearson said, because of a rise in after-dark solicitors.
    Vivien Ayers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Hayes soon learned that the solicitor was representing a candidate for her own race in the 5th Congressional district, which stretches from Simsbury to Danbury to Salisbury on the New York and Massachusetts borders.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 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
  • As Kopek’s nameless tormentor, Jason Bateman is chilling.
    Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • From the fonts to the names of her tormentors, the clip has QT’s influence all over it.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of tormentor
Noun
  • These triggers can often be the sound of another dog howling or, as in Kaido's case, a nearby siren.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Four days later, sirens sounded as rockets flew out of Gaza and into southern Israel.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of siren
Noun
  • It was filmed by the heckler and by those who witnessed Kelce snatch his phone and smash it onto the ground.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Radiohead singer Thom Yorke left the stage at his solo show in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesday night (Oct. 30) after a heckler yelled at him about the war between Israel and Hamas.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of heckler
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