-baiting
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.
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How to use -baiting in a sentence
Open-carry activists are known for baiting cops into on-camera arguments about the Second Amendment and state laws.
Texas Gun Slingers Police the Police—With a Black Panthers Tactic | Brandy Zadrozny | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTLimbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.
When you saw it out in Ferguson, there was a baiting going on.
Ava DuVernay on ‘Selma,’ the Racist Sony Emails, and Making Golden Globes History | Marlow Stern | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Netflix prison dramedy, with its binge-baiting release strategy, is engrossing in every sense of word.
Inside Orange Is the New Black’s Terrifying Showdown Between Red and Vee | Kevin Fallon | June 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDesperate to stand out, some megachurches are baiting Easter crowds with flat-screen TVs, iPads, and Starbucks gift cards.
Can’t Fill the House On Easter? Try Handing Out Gadgets | Matthew Paul Turner | April 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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 Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousThe little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsAt Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes?
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleHe seemed to be baiting his hook for another cast in the river.
Paul Patoff | F. Marion CrawfordHer blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.
The Tragic Muse | Henry James
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