teasing 的 2 个定义
- the act of persistently annoying someone, especially playfully and with silly jokes about them: Most holidays, we all manage to squeeze in at Grandma’s and enjoy a crazy day full of laughter, teasing, eating, and sharing.
- the act of bullying, harassing, or tormenting someone: Many students with learning disabilities suffer the frustration of low achievement and the teasing and poor self-image that come with it.
- the act of purposely exciting, tantalizing, or sexually arousing someone without providing subsequent gratification: She smiled over her shoulder at him, brown eyes shiny with teasing.
- harassing, tantalizing, or playfully annoying someone in any of these ways: In answer to my eager question, they shrugged a teasing “maybe.”Lisa turns 20 next month and her mother is already sending her teasing texts featuring grandma emojis.
teasing 近义词
pestering
更多teasing例句
- The result is a standout, lyrically bleak novel whose teasing title, “The Dark Remains,” can be taken to mean a few things — none of them good.
- I inherited the Arnold Family Thunder ThighsTM, which was a source of frequent teasing and distress for me as a child.
- After some teasing and talking, Mulvehill writes that she is “hesitant” but they start kissing.
- The teasing is so common that is has been accepted as “the standard ginger bullying” by those who Knights has encountered.
- Leach ran an ad teasing Margolies about her Clinton connection, dismissing the first family of Democratic politics as old news.
- The group was overheard teasing Harry about reports that he will soon be walking down the aisle.
- Then I suddenly realised she was talking seriously—looking to me for help of some kind—and at once I dropped the teasing attitude.
- Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.
- He has been teasing my parrot in its cage, and has plucked so many of its feathers that it now looks like a beaked rat.
- I came up to the elephant, and seeing what was going on, told the white men to stop teasing him.
- All night the thought crept through my brain like a teasing spider: What can we do to make him stay?