-baiting


  1. a combining form used to describe hate speech and other rhetoric or depictions that target a minoritized group in order to denigrate that group or for the purpose of pitting different identity groups against one another: gender-baiting;queerbaiting;race-baiting.

Origin of -baiting

1
First recorded in 1920–25; from bait (in the sense “to worry, torment”) + -ing1; modeled after Jew-baiting

Words Nearby -baiting

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How to use -baiting in a sentence

  • The Judge inquired if that was the sole object of the plaintiff, or was it not rather baiting with a sprat to catch a herring?

  • The little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.

    The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
  • At Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes?

  • He seemed to be baiting his hook for another cast in the river.

    Paul Patoff | F. Marion Crawford
  • Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.

    The Tragic Muse | Henry James