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teaser
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of TEASER
1
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another <the teasers were never satisfied until they had caused their victim to burst into tears>
Synonyms baiter, harasser, heckler, mocker, needler, persecutor, quiz, quizzer, ridiculer, taunter, tease, teaser, torturer
Related Words belittler, derider, detractor, giber (or jiber), insulter, jeerer, scoffer, scorner; trash-talker; smart aleck (also smart alec), smarty (or smartie), smarty-pants, wiseacre, wiseguy; kidder, lampooner, satirist; accuser, blamer, troublemaker; assailant, attacker, molester, victimizer; bother, disturber, pest
2
one who is obnoxiously annoying <he was by nature a teaser, someone who kept testing people to see if they could calmly bear his put-downs>
Synonyms annoyance, annoyer, bother, gadfly, gnawer, nudnik (also nudnick), pain, persecutor, pest, tease, teaser
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