Words similar to teasing

Example sentences for: teasing

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According to Professor Spevack, the word hint has no connotation of invitation or covert suggestion: it simply means cue or suggestion; but should not be construed in the modern sense of innuendo, or sly, or teasing, which it came to mean by the end of the 18th century.
Dr. Ober strews a variety of such booby-traps along the trail: the teasing reference to Peter Sellars' participation in Amadeus , for example, and the characterizing of George Steiner as the Oxford pundit.
Who else would tune his ear so finely for traces of an emerging national consciousness, while teasing out the finer points of its economic, social, and moral awareness?
The modestly ordinary fellow, meanwhile--the owner of a struggling travel-book shop in the eponymous London neighborhood--is impersonated by Hugh Grant, who has made a specialty of teasing ordinary modesty into extraordinary adorableness.
To defend yourself against the teasing friends and to show that you, too, can see the humor, Prudie offers a fun Latin saying you might share with your buddies: "Dumbassus!