baiters

noun

plural of baiter
1
as in harassers
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another I try to ignore the rude comments baiters leave on the website

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2
as in seducers
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows I'm on a diet

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Recent Examples of baiters Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026 Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy. — Roger J. Kreuz, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025 Judging by the public reaction, this was only the endgame for the royal race-baiters. — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baiters
  1. harassers
  2. solicitors
  3. teases
  4. sirens
  5. hecklers
  6. torturers
  7. tormentors
  8. persecutors
Noun
  • White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Still, the star did not name her harassers.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 22 May 2026
Definition of harassers
Noun
  • Brooks said her family has encountered plenty of door-to-door solicitors over the years, but never one knocking that late at night.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
  • In the early 1970s, in the midst of an oil crisis, my father ran a solicitors' firm.
    — Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of solicitors
Noun
  • Following a summer of pop-up performances and musical teases, Leon Bridges is getting closer to his next chapter.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The end of Camp Rock 3 teases more could be on the way — and the Jonas Brothers are down to return.
    — Sarah Hearon, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of teases
Noun
  • Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles.
    — Jaimie Ding, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Smog, sweat, subway delays and sirens create a famous combo of discomfort that many try to avoid.
    — Sidney Madden, VIBE.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of sirens
Noun
  • That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • McIlroy was even seen stepping back from the ball to quip back at one of the hecklers, while others, including his friend Shane Lowry, were also quick to respond.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of hecklers
Noun
  • Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.
    — EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.
    — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of torturers
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  • The attacks lead to the fateful events of prom night — a famous moment from King’s original— in which Carrie, who’s become aware of growing telekinetic powers, turns her abilities on her tormenters when she’s finally pushed over the edge.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 July 2026
  • That their tormentors were not untouchable.
    — Nazanin Boniadi, Time, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of tormentors
Noun
  • Honoring the undocumented and decrying their persecutors at the height of her career, against political headwinds and with nothing to gain and everything to lose, was par for her life, and a challenge for all of us to do the same.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Definition of persecutors

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“Baiters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baiters. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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