Tease
To comb or card, as wool or flax.
To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
One who teases or plagues.
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Tease Quotations
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.
Katy Perry
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
Cindy Sherman
With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.
Carmen Electra
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
Christy Turlington
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.
Fay Wray
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
Alan Dundes
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.
Amy Adams
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.
Dorothy Fields
I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.
Greg Louganis
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city.
Sebastian Coe
My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.
Leslie Bibb
Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.
Marge Schott
You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
Parvesh Cheena
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Tease Translations
tease in Afrikaans is pla
tease in Dutch is plagen
tease in French is agacer, taquiner
tease in German is foppe, sticheln, reizen
tease in Italian is irritare, punzecchiare
tease in Latin is fatigo
tease in Spanish is fastidiar
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