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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.
The conclusion, cagey, teasing, is one of Steiner's typically pregnant equivocations.
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!
There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."
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.