The phrase "teasing spirit" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who enjoys playfully provoking or taunting others. Example: She had a mischievous teasing spirit that often got her into trouble with her friends, but they couldn't help but laugh at her antics.
The project's architects are Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti, of Boston, rigorous modernists who have a love of classicism and believe that an architect best respects history not by imitating it but by teasing its spirit into new forms.
Although he can't pinpoint exactly why he comes back to this fetish over and over, Stephen is forthright about the elements of it that he likes playfulness, teasing, "a spirit of comedic anarchy"—and the elements he doesn't—using baked beans in WAM play ("Beans? No way. That's just disgusting to me, I'm sorry")., pie-ing as a humiliation tactic, and bad sports.
The first trailer released for the film teases a similarly rebellious spirit.
Audrey sometimes seems to be a stereotypical dumb blonde, at others a gold digger, a tease, a carnal free spirit and a needy, capricious Medusa.
A Nabokov story, such as "Spring at Fialta", is meant to be unravelled by the attentive reader - and it may take several goes - but the spirit behind its teasing is fundamentally generous: dig deep and you will discover more, is the implied message.
On Wednesday, in high spirits, laughing and teasing each other, they showed off bright lipstick, makeup and glittering jewelry.
In that sonata's Rondo finale they keep the music on edge, sometimes letting its impish spirits emerge, or teasing out some mystery lurking below.
With its frequent generosity of spirit, "Barry" manages to tease Barry's acting classmates while refusing to mock them.
Though probably meant to convey a tone of affectionate teasing, the cover article last Sunday on the fan following of "The Sopranos" seems contaminated by the mocking spirit that frequently characterizes descriptions of New Jersey in New York-based newspapers.
He was a man of immense bright spirits, full of jokes, always teasing Gore.
