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needlingverbpresent participle of needle to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insultswe needled him mercilessly for thinking that he had any chance of being the prom date for the school's most popular girl baiting, hassling, hazing, heckling, riding, taunting, teasing deriding, gibing(or jibing), jeering, mocking, ridiculingannoying, bothering, bugging, burning (up), chafing, fretting, frosting, galling, getting, gnawing (at), grating, griping, hacking (off), hagriding, irking, irritating, itching, nagging, narking(British), nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, ruffling, spiting, troubling, vexingaggravating, exasperating, goading, testing, tryingaggrieving, agitating, bedeviling, beleaguering, discomforting, disturbing, perturbingbadgering, dogging, houndingbrowbeating, bullying, hectoringharassing, harrying, persecuting, plaguing, terrorizing, tormenting, torturing making game of, picking on to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp remindersquit needling me! I'll take out the trash in a minute! dogging, henpecking, hounding, nagging, pecking (at) carping (at), fussing (about or over), nitpickingannoying, badgering, baiting, bothering, bugging, chivying(or chivvying), harassing, harrying, hassling, irking, pestering, plaguing, riding, vexing, yapping (at)egging, goading, inciting, prodding, prompting, spurring, urgingexhorting, insisting, pressing, pressuring, pushingblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, wheedlingbegging, importuning, pleading picking at complimentingcommending, lauding, praising, recommending, toutingacclaiming, applauding, building up, eulogizing, extolling |