-baiting

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of -baiting

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

Example Sentences

Baiting badgers is illegal because badgers are a protected species while foxes have no legal protection.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2022

Baiting him into a pair of mistakes would likely prove decisive in a winner-take-all playoff scenario.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2019

Baiting people is what bullies do; they practice it until they turn it into an art form.

From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2018

Baiting Europe’s second-largest oil producer, a company that had $376 billion in revenue last year, has become a picaresque form of entertainment in some Gulf precincts.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 27, 2013

After a time the tumult subsided so that Baiting Will could make himself heard.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele