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baitingverbpresent participle of bait to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insultsI wished the candidates would stop baiting each other and instead address the real issues hassling, hazing, heckling, needling, 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 lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantagethe investment scheme cunningly baits the greedy and the unscrupulous alluring, beguiling, betraying, decoying, enticing, leading on, luring, seducing, soliciting, tempting drawing in, inveigling, persuading, roping (in), snowingcatching, enmeshing(also immeshing), ensnaring, entrapping, meshing, snaring, tangling, trappingbewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, magnetizing, wiling alerting, cautioning, forewarning, warding (off), warningdriving (away or off), repulsing, turning away |