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baited

  • past participle of bait.
  • past tense form of bait.

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She was at the helm of a delightful and ridiculous YouTube show called Baited from 2017 until early 2020.

From Slate • May 6, 2021

Steinert likes to recall the embarrassment she underwent in being misquoted about music czar James Caesar Baited Breath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baited at on Chrightones forgainst the Palace, which hes bein werie magnificent, is now for the most part ruinous.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord

She, under fair pretense of saintly ends, And well-placed words of sweetest courtesy Baited with reason, not unplausible, Glides into the easy hearts of men, And draws them into snares.

From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation! mark, Who in widow-weeds appears, Laden with unhonour'd years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert