teasing
noun
the act of persistently annoying someone, especially playfully and with silly jokes about them.
teasings
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pluralof teasing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But her teasings – like her reminders of Jennifer Lawrence’s struggles with the forces of gravity — were generally light and pleasantly show-bizzy.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2014
Dr. Aicadre accepts his invalidism with bitter fatalism; the only things that are insupportable are the teasings of Madame Teterger's idiot son, who hates him. and the starvation rations given to his pet dog Bobbee.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was these teasings of her brother that gave me my first inkling that the old ranchero was a wily matchmaker, though he religiously denied every such accusation.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
In his familiar intercourse, Bonaparte was what schoolboys call a tease; but his teasings were never spiteful, and seldom unkind.
From The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas père
Occasionally he succeeded; but I always escaped with ease, because I chose for my teasings only days when it had rained a short time before.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
