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
Meta rather liked, than otherwise, those pretty teasings of Dr. May, but they always made Norman colour extremely, and he parried them by announcing news.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Rage recalls dislike, and it may be he remembered bygone irritations and teasings.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
Miss Clark, her form mistress, was apt to wax eloquent over her mistakes, but she took the teacher's sarcasms with the same stolidity as the girls' teasings.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
