Tease
verb
To make fun of someone in a playful, good-natured way.
My friends always tease me about my obsession with shoes.
Often appears as...
- tease about
- tease for
verb
To provoke or annoy someone, often on purpose.
Don't tease your little sister by hiding her teddy bear.
Often appears as...
- tease about
- tease into
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To gently pull or comb (tangled hair) in different directions in order to make it fluffy.
She teased her hair to give it more volume before the party.
Often appears as...
- tease out
- tease into
verb
To separate (something) into parts with an implement or the fingers.
The archaeologist carefully teased the dirt away from the artifact.
Often appears as...
- tease apart
- tease out
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who makes fun of someone playfully or unkindly.
He is known as the class tease because he always pokes fun at his classmates.
Often appears as...
- be a tease
- act like a tease
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To make fun of someone in a playful, good-natured way.
My friends always tease me about my obsession with shoes.
Often appears as...
- tease about
- tease for
verb
To provoke or annoy someone, often on purpose.
Don't tease your little sister by hiding her teddy bear.
Often appears as...
- tease about
- tease into
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To gently pull or comb (tangled hair) in different directions in order to make it fluffy.
She teased her hair to give it more volume before the party.
Often appears as...
- tease out
- tease into
verb
To separate (something) into parts with an implement or the fingers.
The archaeologist carefully teased the dirt away from the artifact.
Often appears as...
- tease apart
- tease out
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who makes fun of someone playfully or unkindly.
He is known as the class tease because he always pokes fun at his classmates.
Often appears as...
- be a tease
- act like a tease
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/2Playful Teasing
Tease in a friendly manner to joke without hurting feelings.
They tease each other about their favorite sports teams.
Pro Tip 2/2Relationships Matter
Usually done among friends who understand and accept this behavior.
As best friends, they often tease one another about silly mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/2Playful Teasing
Tease in a friendly manner to joke without hurting feelings.
They tease each other about their favorite sports teams.
Pro Tip 2/2Relationships Matter
Usually done among friends who understand and accept this behavior.
As best friends, they often tease one another about silly mistakes.
Pro Tip 1/2Playful Teasing
Tease in a friendly manner to joke without hurting feelings.
They tease each other about their favorite sports teams.
Pro Tip 2/2Relationships Matter
Usually done among friends who understand and accept this behavior.
As best friends, they often tease one another about silly mistakes.
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Why is this painting so...
A well-dressed child princess refuses a glass of water from a handmaid, while a dwarf teases a dog. A second dwarf stands next to them, while the artist himself pauses at his canvas. Two more people whisper in the background, while a third appears to be exiting the room,
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An ode to Marvin Minsky...
sure you all have stories of it and I encourage you during the break to tell each other those stories but for the for those of you who didn't know him he was kind of he was kind of an impish sage who had this inner sense of the truth and I was always kind of teasing you
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Rick Guidotti: From...
she walks in like this, her head's down, shoulders hunched, one-word answers, she looks down, no eye contact. This kid has been teased her whole life because of her difference. And it was so apparent in the fact that it left her with zero self-esteem.
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The future of...
And they helped me have a spiritual connection that unfortunately, my bar mitzvah did not produce. When I wanted to tease my parents, I would tell them that they drove me to psychedelics because my bar mitzvah had failed to turn me into a man.
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Why being respectful to...
I study the effects of incivility on people. What is incivility? It's disrespect or rudeness. It includes a lot of different behaviors, from mocking or belittling someone to teasing people in ways that sting to telling offensive jokes
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The philosophy of...
outdoors year-round, forgoing technology, baths, and cooked food. He didn’t go about this new existence quietly, but is said to have teased passers-by and mocked the powerful, eating, urinating and even masturbating in public.
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What is abstract...
to reveal truths hidden within their minds. Occasionally, instead of picturing something and then drawing it, they let their hands move automatically and would later tease out familiar figures that appeared in the scribbles.
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Japan Geishas PIPE National...
Geisha well in fact what she does is tease and cajole she boosts your ego she makes every little word you say sounds like it you know it came out of Shakespeare and she's really a past mistress of that art of making the man
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What really matters at...
It's a key distinction. To get underneath this, it can be very helpful to tease out suffering which is necessary as it is, from suffering we can change. The former is a natural, essential part of life, part of the deal,
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Deb Roy: The birth of a...
so we could start teasing apart patterns in this massive data set, trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition. So we're looking here at one of the first things we started to do.
Video examples
Why is this painting so...
A well-dressed child princess refuses a glass of water from a handmaid, while a dwarf teases a dog. A second dwarf stands next to them, while the artist himself pauses at his canvas. Two more people whisper in the background, while a third appears to be exiting the room,
Video examples
An ode to Marvin Minsky...
sure you all have stories of it and I encourage you during the break to tell each other those stories but for the for those of you who didn't know him he was kind of he was kind of an impish sage who had this inner sense of the truth and I was always kind of teasing you
Video examples
Rick Guidotti: From...
she walks in like this, her head's down, shoulders hunched, one-word answers, she looks down, no eye contact. This kid has been teased her whole life because of her difference. And it was so apparent in the fact that it left her with zero self-esteem.
Video examples
The future of...
And they helped me have a spiritual connection that unfortunately, my bar mitzvah did not produce. When I wanted to tease my parents, I would tell them that they drove me to psychedelics because my bar mitzvah had failed to turn me into a man.
Video examples
Why being respectful to...
I study the effects of incivility on people. What is incivility? It's disrespect or rudeness. It includes a lot of different behaviors, from mocking or belittling someone to teasing people in ways that sting to telling offensive jokes
Video examples
The philosophy of...
outdoors year-round, forgoing technology, baths, and cooked food. He didn’t go about this new existence quietly, but is said to have teased passers-by and mocked the powerful, eating, urinating and even masturbating in public.
Video examples
What is abstract...
to reveal truths hidden within their minds. Occasionally, instead of picturing something and then drawing it, they let their hands move automatically and would later tease out familiar figures that appeared in the scribbles.
Video examples
Japan Geishas PIPE National...
Geisha well in fact what she does is tease and cajole she boosts your ego she makes every little word you say sounds like it you know it came out of Shakespeare and she's really a past mistress of that art of making the man
Video examples
What really matters at...
It's a key distinction. To get underneath this, it can be very helpful to tease out suffering which is necessary as it is, from suffering we can change. The former is a natural, essential part of life, part of the deal,
Video examples
Deb Roy: The birth of a...
so we could start teasing apart patterns in this massive data set, trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition. So we're looking here at one of the first things we started to do.
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Jim Broadbent
American Actor
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
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Katy Perry
American Musician
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
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Jim Ross
American Entertainer
I've been a wrestling fan my whole life, and for so many years a lot of us have been, for lack of a better word, bullied. We've been teased, kidded, eyes rolled from our peers and family members. 'You watch wrestling?!?' I see my shows as a safe zone, a safe haven.
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Fay Wray
American Actress
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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Josh Gondelman
American Author
Sure, sometimes I get teased for being the guy who likes everything, but I don't think of myself as someone apart from this world.
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Tim Daly
American Actor
I can't help teasing people. That's the way that I am, and I hope that nobody takes it too personally.
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Rihanna
American Musician
I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.
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Karin Slaughter
American Writer
I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
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Kiku Sharda
Indian Comedian
Even if I have played female characters, nobody has ever teased my kids.
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Ruben Studdard
American Musician
So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
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Jim Broadbent
American Actor
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
Quote examples
Katy Perry
American Musician
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
Quote examples
Jim Ross
American Entertainer
I've been a wrestling fan my whole life, and for so many years a lot of us have been, for lack of a better word, bullied. We've been teased, kidded, eyes rolled from our peers and family members. 'You watch wrestling?!?' I see my shows as a safe zone, a safe haven.
Quote examples
Fay Wray
American Actress
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Quote examples
Josh Gondelman
American Author
Sure, sometimes I get teased for being the guy who likes everything, but I don't think of myself as someone apart from this world.
Quote examples
Tim Daly
American Actor
I can't help teasing people. That's the way that I am, and I hope that nobody takes it too personally.
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Rihanna
American Musician
I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.
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Karin Slaughter
American Writer
I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
Quote examples
Kiku Sharda
Indian Comedian
Even if I have played female characters, nobody has ever teased my kids.
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Ruben Studdard
American Musician
So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
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