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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tease someone" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to playfully making fun of or provoking someone in a light-hearted manner. Example: "She loved to tease her brother about his silly dance moves."
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This novel starts when Anuj's friend Maddy has used his number to tease someone.
How marvellous it must be for Andy Murrayto be able to tease someone for being dour.
Horrified, he says, "Back in my day if you wanted to tease someone, you did it to their face.
Asher describes Susan as "manipulative, enjoying her power in a very cruel way, using her sexuality to tease someone young and naive... she's a tease in the worst sense of the word.
Emotionally disturbed students who would normally tease someone for that kind of disjointed performance were being supportive of him.
Or if I'm feeling a little funny and fancy and want to playfully tease someone, I'll add weird suffixes to the end of it, like nigorino or niggy.
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Perhaps just being silly, teasing someone else for being daft.
I tell them that if it feels like they're teasing someone, they are.
"O.K., man, you do the drop," Wayne raps on "My Weezy," teasing someone about his car.
I can't be specific, it struck me as close to bullying, teasing someone about private messages.
Partly that's because Big Sean has a bouncy, gum-snapping voice that makes him sound as if he were teasing someone on the schoolyard — he raps like a kid clamoring for attention — and partly it's because he sounds forever impressed with his own cleverness.
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